The U.S. retirement income system - including employment-based retirement plans, Social Security, individual saving, and post-retirement employment - can be assessed in part by examining the income of the current elderly population (age 65 and older). This paper reviews the latest available data...

The U.S. retirement income system - including employment-based retirement plans, Social Security, individual saving, and post-retirement employment - can be assessed in part by examining the income of the current elderly population (age 65 and older). This paper reviews the latest available data...

This paper presents the most recent federal data on the finances of employee benefits. For decades, retirement costs accounted for the bulk of total spending on benefits by employers, but health costs are rapidly catching up. In fact, voluntary health care costs (spending on health insurance...