Tag: replacement rates
The brief’s key findings are: Between 2010 and 2013, the National Retirement Risk Index improved only slightly, dropping from 53 percent to 52 percent of working-age households. This result may seem surprising given that the stock market was up and housing prices had begun to rebound. But other factors – Social Security’s rising “Full Retirement…
Abstract This paper examines conflicting assessments of whether people will have adequate retirement income to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living. The studies that it examines use data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), and the HRS supplement Consumption and Activities Mail Survey (CAMS). Critical components of t…
