Even though you might think it would go the other way, since married couples have to provide for a family, it turns out that singles don’t do as well at either making or saving money as someone who’s tied the knot.
That’s according to a new survey by TD Ameritrade, which finds that only 29 percent of single survey respondents in the U.S. said that they were very financially secure. That compares with 43 percent of married individuals.
Three out of ten single Americans, it finds, are not saving any money, compared with 17 percent of married people who are not saving. Single people are also making less money than their married counterparts, and are more likely than their hitched friends to blow their entire paycheck and never get any of it into savings.
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