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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Singles Have Significantly Less Saved For Retirement Than Couples

If you are on your own, you’re probably not saving enough for retirement. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research on retirement readiness from two researchers at the RAND Corporation, a non-profit research firm.

In Economic Preparation for Retirement, Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder found that 51% of the single people in the group of 66-to-69 year olds they looked at had a strong possibility of running into serious financial troubles in retirement. By comparison, only 23% of the couples in the study were at risk of outliving their savings. The group with the most retirement risk? Women who had not completed a high school education. Of that group, 73% are likely to run out of cash before they die.

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1 comment:

Flerndip said...

That makes sense because two incomes are better than one. Who would have guessed? Way to go. Now lets do a study to find out how quick our government is going to run out of money at the rate we are spending it. Ooops. Already happened.