Tag: savings
The brief’s key findings are: IRAs were intended to give those without an employer plan access to a tax-deferred savings vehicle. Today, IRAs hold nearly half of all private retirement assets, but most of these funds are rollovers from 401(k)s, rather than contributions. The 14 percent of households who do contribute to IRAs include: higher-incom…
Just one in four of the low-income workers eligible for the federal tax credit for retirement saving are even aware that it exists. The IRS, as I said in a previous blog, practically “gives money away” through its Saver’s Tax Credit, which returns as much as half of the amount saved to the tax filer…
