Tag: two-income couples

Diverse couple using laptop while sitting at the table at home

Every time we look at households’ preparedness for retirement, we find that two-earner couples are in the worst shape.  We generally attribute their status to the fact that one-earner couples receive a Social Security spouse’s benefit equal to 50 percent of the breadwinner’s while most two-earner couples do not.   A recent study, however, suggests another…