Chicago – 80 Is The New 65 When It Comes To Retirement, Survey Says

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    Chicago – When it comes to retirement, many middle class Americans said 80 is the new 65 and plan to delay retirement because of worries over money, according to a new survey.

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    Wells Fargo bank asked 1,500 Americans who earned between $25,000 and $99,999 and ranged in age from 20 into their 70s questions about retirement, savings and Social Security for its seventh annual retirement survey.

    Three-fourths of those surveyed said they expect to work in their retirement years. One quarter said they will “need to work until at least age 80” to live comfortably in retirement.

    Of Americans who will work in retirement, “47 percent said that they are going to continue in the same job or a similar job of similar responsibility,” Joe Ready, Well Fargo’s director of Institutional Retirement and Trust, told Reuters Insider.

    “That raises a lot of social and economic implications. Will they have the physical ability to work, the mental capacity? What does that mean for the younger work force in terms of coming through and looking to get ahead?”

    Three-fourths of Americans said it is more important to have a specific amount saved before retirement, regardless of age, while only 20 percent said it is more important to retire at a specific age regardless of savings.

    In terms of saving for retirement, 53 percent of those surveyed said they need to significantly cut back on spending now to save for retirement.

    “People are overwhelmed. They’re not saving enough,” Ready said.

    On average, Americans have saved only seven percent of their desired retirement nest egg, with a median of $25,000 saved versus a median retirement goal of $350,000.

    “For several years now, we’ve seen that Americans are undersaving for retirement and a majority do not trust the stock market as a place to invest for retirement,” Ready said.

    “We did find a bright spot among middle class Americans – more than three quarters do not want to retire with mortgage debt. This is an important goal, particularly for younger Americans,” said Laurie Nordquist, director of Wells Fargo Institutional Retirement and Trust.

    Eighty-six percent of respondents said it’s important to own their home debt free by retirement.

    On the issue of Social Security there was an age divide. Those in their 60s expect Social Security to provide 46 percent of their retirement funding. But more than a quarter of Americans in their 20s and 30s expect no income at all from Social Security during their retirement.


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    12 years ago

    Nebech, a very sizeable portion of the population NEVER reaches 80.

    RebKlemson
    RebKlemson
    12 years ago

    its kinda the reason i have no desire to put a cent into social security, i am not getting it back 0 chance

    12 years ago

    Nobody wants to understand originally when social security was set up the retirement age was 65 and men normally only lived to 57. You weren’t meant to collect.

    Buchwalter
    Buchwalter
    12 years ago

    Most civilized countries have social security ;programs and to all those fine “conservatives” . American SSA has mutual agreements with Germany, Austria, France, England , Japan and many other industrialized countries and the reason for these agreements is that those countries have manufacturing facilities in the United States and the employees/managers are given a choice which coverage to select. The American economy would fall flat on its face despite of the “conservative” views if these agreements would be abrogated or abolished. The program is called totalization. Ignorance is bliss and some people are in a high state of bliss.

    ALLAN
    ALLAN
    12 years ago

    “As a Liberal, I’m actually OK with raising the age up to perhaps 67 MAYBE… in order to help w\the solvency issue.”

    I hope you and your husband save enough over the years so that your comment doesn’t come back to bite you. There are plenty of hard working decent loyal Americans who were or weren’t able to save enough yet would still like to retire and live conservatively At 62 you get partial, at the current 66 (which was the former 65) you get what is called full, at 70 (if one can do it) you get the most which is called defered. 66 is bad enough 67 is just not right.

    cookookajew
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    cookookajew
    12 years ago

    Lets simplify and cut the baloney. Set the retirement age to 200. now thats being realistic.

    note: I am being sarcastic