Retirement confidence resilient despite pandemic
The annual EBRI survey underscores workers and retirees optimism about the outlook for Social Security and Medicare.
April 22, 2021 3 MINS
Despite a global pandemic, the majority of workers and retirees are more optimistic about their ability to live comfortably throughout retirement than before the Covid-19 outbreak began, according to the 2021 Retirement Confidence Survey
released Thursday.
The 31
st annual Retirement Confidence Survey of more than 3,000 Americans, equally divided between workers and retirees, was fielded twice last year: Once in January before the Covid-19 outbreak and a supplemental survey in March allowing for comparisons during the pandemic. The RCS survey, conducted by the Employee Benefit Research Institute and Greenwald Research, is the longest-running survey of its kind.