The U.S. Office of Personnel Management conducted an online survey of federal workers in mid-2005 to measure the retirement readiness of civilian federal workers. Results of OPM's Retirement Readiness Survey (RRS) were made public during the summer of 2006, and allow a number of comparisons...

Both the United Kingdom and the United States face similar budget pressures over their national retirement programs, shortfalls in individual savings, and a rapid decline of traditional private defined benefit pension plans. In both the U.K. and the U.S., major stumbling blocks to reform have...

Where are retirement plans headed, and why? The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) and AARP (formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons) held a day-long conference May 15, 2006, in Washington, DC, to examine those questions. Several speakers at the conference, formally...

This paper presents findings from the EBRI/Commonwealth Fund Consumerism in Health Care Survey released at the December 2005 Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) policy forum. The survey, the first independent study of its kind, was sponsored by EBRI and The Commonwealth Fund to get a fix...

This paper presents issues examined and discussed by participants at the Employee Benefit Research Institute's spring policy forum in Washington, DC, held May 5, 2005. EBRI President Dallas Salisbury said the forum was designed to pull together research that touched on the "total integration of...

This paper summarizes highlights from the Employee Benefit Research Institute's (EBRI) December 2008 policy forum, titled "Outlook for Consumer/Patient Engagement in Health Care--30 Years into the Experiment," which took a detailed look at consumer-directed health plans and related issues....