Tag: retirement saving
The Savers Tax Credit sounds great on paper. Low-income people get a federal tax credit for saving money for retirement. But this part of the tax code always seems to disappoint. The House recently overwhelmingly passed a bill, the Secure Act 2.0, that – along with numerous other retirement provisions – makes the savers credit…
The brief’s key findings are: When kids leave home, parents consume less but they don’t save more. So where is the money going? The analysis looks at three ways to square the circle: define saving more broadly: parents could be paying down debt faster; define consumption more broadly: they could be assisting grown children; and…
