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Plan sponsors and fiduciaries should ensure that individual account fees are reasonable.
Tax-preferenced retirement savings accounts, which receive a tax subsidy to provide retirement security, should exclude new types of unregulated investment products.
Fiduciary responsibility to plan participants must be steadfastly maintained.
Americans’ retirement income comes from several sources. For most, Social Security income is the foundation of financial security in retirement.
Outreach to older adults should be an integral component of low-income assistance programs and include targeted outreach to underserved communities, such as rural areas.
Policies and regulations should prioritize placing children in foster care with grandparents and other caregiver relatives whenever possible and appropriate.
Public-benefit programs should ensure that families headed by grandparents and other caregiver relatives receive sufficient support for economic security and well-being.
Any further efforts to address marriage penalties should be focused on two-earner couples and structured to avoid increasing marriage bonuses.
Policymakers should broaden the tax base by limiting tax preferences that do not efficiently achieve important policy goals.
Policymakers should limit the increasing number of taxpayers subject to the taxation of Social Security benefits to better protect the benefits of people who have no or limited additional retiremen