Employment support for the transition to retirement: can a new program help older workers continue to work and protect those who cannot?

Employment support for the transition to retirement: can a new program help older workers continue to work and protect those who cannot?

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Series Title(s):
Research report (AARP Public Policy Institute)
Contributor(s):
Stapleton, David C.
AARP (Organization)
Public Policy Institute (AARP (Organization))
Publication:
Washington, D.C. : AARP Public Policy Institute, c2009
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Employment
Retirement
United States
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
There are compelling reasons for policy reforms that would encourage later retirement, but one important drawback to many reforms is that they would adversely affect the household incomes of the many workers who experience large involuntary earnings losses as they approach retirement. Employment Support for the Transition to Retirement (ESTR) is a set of supports designed to encourage and help such workers increase their earnings and postpone reliance on their retirement benefits until the benefits are larger. This paper describes the need for such a program; presents options with respect to eligibility and benefit design; considers the potential cost, financing, and administration of the program; and compares the approach embodied in ESTR with other approaches designed to address the needs of those most adversely affected by retirement policy reforms.
Copyright:
Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
Extent:
xii, 39 p.
NLM Unique ID:
101507736 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101507736