Tag: retirement planning
The brief’s key findings are: The 2010 National Retirement Risk Index showed that 53 percent of households will not be able to maintain their standard of living in retirement. But equity and house prices have both increased since then. Interestingly, updating the asset values only reduces the Index to 50 percent because: the rise in…
Abstract Although long-term care is a substantial financial risk for retired households, only about 10 percent purchase insurance, with many of the remainder relying on Medicaid. Faced with rising Medicaid expenditures on long-term care, states have attempted to encourage the purchase of private long-term care insurance through partnership programs that exempt purchasers of qualifying policies…
