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Steps to Address America's Retirement Security Challenge: A Public Policy Point of View (PDF)
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[Opinion]
Nov. 8, 2017

15 pages. "As the U.S. retirement system continues to evolve and individuals take on more responsibility for retirement planning, it's important to support those workers as much as possible in the transition.... [K]ey policy changes that will strengthen the current system.... [1] Encourage greater access to lifetime income products.... [2] Establish an alternative 401(k) safe harbor plan with higher deferral rates.... [3] Facilitate portability and consolidation of individuals' retirement assets.... [4] Permit some retirement savings to be used for short-term needs.... [5] End the Federal Budget practice of 'double counting' increases in the premiums that plan sponsors must pay to the PBGC.... [6] Revise nondiscrimination testing rules that currently encourage many plan sponsors to 'freeze' their DB pension plans."  MORE >>

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