The 2014 Retirement Confidence Survey: confidence rebounds--for those with retirement plans.
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This increased confidence is observed almost exclusively among those with higher household income, but it was also found that confidence was strongly correlated with household participation in a retirement plan (including an individual retirement account (IRA)). Nearly half of workers without a retirement plan were not at all confident about their financial security in retirement, compared with only about 1 in 10 with a plan.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- EBRI issue brief
دوره 397 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014