Automatically enrolling workers in a retirement plan is one of the most powerful tools policymakers and retirement plan sponsors have found to increase retirement savings. A bill making its way ...

If your employer’s 401(k) plan has auto-enrollment, you’ll automatically start making contributions to your account once you’re eligible. Under a federal law enacted in 2022, most new 401(k) plans ...

401(k) plan policies like auto-enrollment and auto-escalation have become popular. They aim to boost workers' retirement savings. Pioneering researchers found that the policies may be less effective ...

Nearly a third of Americans age 55 and over have no retirement savings, and defined benefit pension plans are going the way of the dinosaur. So you'd think that employers would be doing a great thing ...

Automatic enrollment of employees into defined contribution retirement plans such as 401(k)s has grown so quickly that more than half of employers now offer it to their employees, according to a new ...

IMGCAP(1)]There has been a significant trend in recent years to add automatic features to 401(k) retirement plans. The most common, automatic enrollment, is a feature that automatically enrolls new ...

Despite the continued popularity of automatic enrollment among 401(k) plans, research suggests automatic enrollment might work against the long-term goal of increasing workers’ retirement savings by ...

The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual shared responsibility penalty was reduced to $0 in 2017, effectively repealing the individual mandate and removing a key means of reducing uninsurance. For ...

Only around half of Americans participate in a workplace retirement savings plan, but auto-enrollment can change that. solidcolours/iStock via Getty Images In 2022 the government passed the Securing a ...