A large percentage of people dying lately have had few to no assets to their names when they passed.
So says research from the Employee Benefit Research Institute, which also found that the younger people were when they died, the more likely they were to die broke.
"Households which lost family members at relatively younger ages were also the households with lower asset holdings and lower income," Sudipto Banerjee, EBRI research associate and author of the study, said in a statement. "Singles who died relatively early were in much worse financial condition than couples."
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