Obama Seeks Automatic Workplace Pensions

The Obama administration seeks to enhance retirement savings by forcing forcing employers to automatically enroll employees in "direct-deposit IRA account."

The plan would force employers that don’t offer retirement plans to enroll employees in a “direct-deposit IRA account,” with the option for workers themselves to opt out. Currently, 75 million working Americans, or about half the workforce, lacks employer-based retirement plans, according to the administration.

Source: Bloomberg

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