2007 Issue Briefs

The percentage of working heads of families who participated in an employment-based retirement plan dropped more than 2 percentage points from 2001–2004, according to a study released by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). Press release EBRI Notes Feb 8, 2007 12 pages

Over the 12-year period from 1992-2004, the majority of 65- to 75-year-old Americans appear to have started their retirement reasonably successfully in terms of income and total wealth, but some have not done as ell, according to a report released by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). EBRI Issue Brief Feb 1, 2007 24 pages

Enactment of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 shows that Congress has endorsed the use of behavioral economics to lead individuals to make better decisions about retirement planning, according to a report by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). EBRI Issue Brief Jan 16, 2007 20 pages

Health Insurance of the Near Elderly: Future retired adults 55-64 may experience an increase in the likelihood of being uninsured if employer cutbacks in retiree health benefits affect them and they have no other means of obtaining health insurance. Individual retirement accounts: IRA assets experienced their third consecutive year of growth in 2005, reaching a record high of $3.67 trillion, and are likely to become the single largest source of retirement assets outside of Social Security for private-sector workers in retirement, according to a report by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). Press release EBRI Notes Jan 9, 2007 16 pages