Health savings accounts and health reimbursement arrangements: assets, account balances, and rollovers, 2006-2012.

Health Savings Accounts and Health Reimbursement Arrangements: Assets, Account Balances, and Rollovers, 2006-2014.

Health savings accounts and health reimbursement arrangements: assets, account balances, and rollovers, 2006-2011.

ASSET LEVELS GROWING: In 2011, there was $12.4 billion in health savings accounts (HSAs) and health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), spread across 8.4 million accounts, according to data from the 2011 EBRI/MGA Consumer Engagement in Health Care Survey, sponsored by EBRI and Matthew Greenwald & Associates. This is up from 2006, when there were 1.3 million accounts with $873.4 million in assets...

Health Savings Account Balances, Contributions, Distributions, and Other Vital Statistics, 2015: Estimates from the EBRI HSA Database.

The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) maintains a wealth of data collected from various health savings account (HSA) providers. The EBRI HSA Database contains 2.9 million accounts with total assets of $5 billion as of Dec. 31, 2014. This Issue Brief is the second annual report drawing on cross-sectional data from the EBRI HSA Database. It examines account balances, individual and emplo...

Do basic savings accounts help the poor to save? Evidence from a eld experiment in Nepal

Recent studies have shown that the majority of the poor lack access to formal banking services of any kind and have emphasized the importance of enabling savings. Using a field experiment I investigate the impact of expanding household access to a savings account with no withdrawal fees on savings and borrowing behavior, assets accumulation, and investment in health and education. A savings acc...

Individual Retirement Account Balances, Contributions, and Rollovers, 2013; With Longitudinal Results 2010-2013: The EBRI IRA Database.

 Individual retirement accounts (IRAs) are a vital component of U.S. retirement savings, holding nearly one-quarter of all retirement plan assets in the nation. A substantial portion of these IRA assets originated in other tax-qualified retirement plans, such as defined benefit (pension) and 401(k) plans, and were moved to IRAs through rollovers from those plans.  As part of the EBRI Center f...