The numbers are relatively small but a greater percentage of defined-contribution plan participants stopped contributing to their accounts in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year.
A total of 2.1 percent of participants stopped contributing to their plans during the first half of 2014, compared with 1.5 percent during the same period a year earlier, according to the Investment Company Institute in Washington, D.C.
Also, 2.3 percent took withdrawals in the first half of this year, which was only slightly higher than the 2.2 percent of the previous year.
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