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The National Retirement Risk Index: An Update from the 2022 SCF

Issue Brief by Yimeng Yin, Anqi Chen, and Alicia H. Munnell

February 27, 2024

The release of the Federal Reserve’s 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances offers an opportunity to reassess Americans’ retirement preparedness as measured by the National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI). The NRRI estimates the share of American households that are at risk of being unable to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living in retirement…

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Almost Half of Today’s Working Households Are at Risk of a Lower Standard of Living in Retirement

MarketWatch Blog by Alicia H. Munnell

June 1, 2023

Despite extensive changes to the National Retirement Risk Index’s platform, methodology, and data, the picture remains the same. The Center first released its National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI) in 2006. The goal was to summarize in a single number the extent to which today’s workers would be prepared for retirement. The Index uses the Federa…