Britain, with New Zealand, is breaking new ground in introducing a retirement-saving plan using the device of automatic enrolment.
If your employer offers a 401(k) retirement saving plan, contribute at least enough to get a company match, if there is one.
Here's how American retirement accounts will work: To give a strong incentive for saving, my plan will offer working and middle-class families generous matching tax cuts.
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James Dorn, a currency expert at the Cato Institute, is skeptical that the Maharishi's plan for saving the world through co-ops and raams will work.
Looking at your empty bank account should not dishearten you or keep you from saving but, instead, motivate you to build the financial discipline to set a goal, make a plan, and start saving automatically.
But Marchionne had a grand plan in mind: By saving Chrysler, he could also save Alfa Romeo.
Whether the Bush plan really will increase national saving, however, is doubtful.
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But only if the Social Security surplus was spent, as it always has been, would Mr Bush's plan automatically ensure that national saving would rise.
Because these retirement savings accounts are in addition to Social Security (rather than carved out of it), and because they are targeted towards poorer people, they will do more to help raise America's saving rate than Mr Bush's plan.
The existing plan for combating HIV centres on saving the lives of those already infected.
You appear to accept this key role of the increase in national saving and to acknowledge that such an increase in saving would occur with a Bush-type plan.
So Merle takes matters into his own hands, in a crazy plan to have everything forgiven by saving the day, by doing the dirty work so he can stay close to his brother.
Since he was contributing a decent amount, was invested fairly aggressively, and had 30 years until he planned to retire, our retirement plan estimator calculated that he was actually saving more than he needed to meet his retirement goals.
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These rules provide incentives for plan sponsors to find innovative ways of encouraging saving by their employees.
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Indeed, it is not much of a stretch to suggest that these rules are the reason we have seen the widespread adoption over the years of employer matching contributions, automatic enrollment, automatic escalation of contributions, and numerous other innovations in the retirement plan space that have been shown to increase saving.
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If we go after the tax incentives for retirement saving, we must be careful not to inadvertently destroy the plan sponsor infrastructure that is the foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.
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But instead of saving money by shifting costs to seniors, like the congressional Republican plan proposes, our approach would lower the cost of health care throughout the entire system.
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She begins saving 6% of her salary in the firm's 401(k) plan to attain the firm's 6% matching contribution.
She scrapped her plan to buy a house, and instead spent the next 12 months saving money and selling nearly all her possessions.
Families saving for college, however, would do better by using a 529 state college savings plan.
She is now saving 10% of her salary (which has increased over the years) in the 401(k) plan.
The saving from localisation is a vital contribution to deficit reduction and it is essential we have a credible deficit reduction plan.
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