Tag: retirement security
The brief’s key findings are: For a comfortable retirement, many households may need to tap their home equity but, currently, few take out a reverse mortgage or defer their property taxes. One reason may be that, if they move during retirement, they would have to pay back the loan and could be left with inadequat…
The brief’s key findings are: As the U.S. grows more diverse, it is important to understand how much Social Security affects the relative economic status of retirees by race/ethnicity. This analysis uses the Health and Retirement Study to examine Social Security as a share of retirement wealth for whites, blacks, and Hispanics during 1992-2016. Without…
