Data and Research | March 15th, 2024 Data Inform Public Sector Employers on How Workers 35 and Under Were Recruited A MissionSquare Research Institute brief explores the sentiments of younger public sector workers by race and ethnicity and explores motivations...
Data and Research | March 16th, 2023 Government Employees Express Fear of Outliving Retirement Income Personal debt, possible cuts to Social Security and rising inflation are concerns for state and local government employees when saving...
Benefits | September 27th, 2022 Report Shows Different Spending Patterns by Retirement Plan Type The research demonstrates that public-sector workers tend to feel safer spending more when they have a defined benefit retirement plan...
Benefits | February 4th, 2022 San Diego to Retroactively Replace Thousands of Employees’ DC Plans With Pensions A law that moved all city employees except police officers to defined contribution plans was found to have been illegally...
Data and Research | July 1st, 2021 Public Retirement Benefits Not What They Used to Be Changes to public pensions following the Great Recession make them less than adequate for most employees now, and some of...
Products | June 30th, 2021 Public Plans Database Has Been Expanded Users can now find comprehensive data about public DC plans as well as public DB plans.
Benefits | May 25th, 2021 The Future of Public DC Programs Includes a Focus on Financial Wellness The pandemic and new data are highlighting the need for more financial wellness help, as well as assistance with asset...
Data and Research | March 19th, 2021 Public Sector Employees Need a Push to Supplement Pensions Public sector employees do not increase savings in DC plans in response to potentially lowered DB benefits or the inability...
Participants | January 29th, 2021 Public Sector Gen X Workers Face More Outstanding Retirement Plan Loans Likely feeling the same financial squeeze as their private sector counterparts, the new Public Retirement Research Lab also found they...
Data and Research | January 9th, 2019 Study Supports DB Plans Over DC Plans for Teachers The study, which evaluated pensions against hypothetical 401(k) plans, finds 77% of teachers in six states will work long enough...
Benefits | March 21st, 2018 Study Supports Use of Auto Features in Public-Sector 457 Plans The state of South Dakota has experienced good results since implementing automatic enrollment and automatic deferral escalation in its 457(b)...
Data and Research | February 15th, 2018 Case Study Warns of Effect of Move From Public DB to Public DC The NIRS studied the case of Palm Beach, Florida, which it says offers “an important cautionary tale on the detrimental...