ACCF Scholar Mark Warshawsky
ACCF Scholar: As the markets tank, Congress can help retirees by suspending RMDs
Consider a retired individual, 72 years old, with $100,000 invested in a retirement account at the end of last year, 50 percent broadly invested...
The ACA Was Never Fully Paid For
The White House celebrations for the twelfth anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remind us that twelve years is a...
The Average US Retirement Age Increased over the Past 30 Years
In a new American Enterprise Institute study, ACCF Scholar Mark Warshawsky notes over the past 30 years, the average retirement age has increased by about three years, from 62 to 65.
ACCF Scholar: Senate-bound Retirement Legislation Still Needs Work
Encouraging retirement savings is a laudable goal, and the House recently overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation to that effect; “Securing a Strong Retirement Act of...
Specific steps to improve the fairness and sustainability of Medicaid’s financing of long-term services...
In a prior article (Warshawsky and Marchand, 2017), a colleague and I put forward some broad proposals to improve the system of financing long-term...