retirement plan 401(k) retirement savings portability |

Missing participants are bad

Missing participants sponsors survey |

401(k) cashouts are MUCH worse

1. Missing participants have preserved their retirement savings, while participants cashing out have not. 2. Far more cashouts occur than participants who go missing.

  • 6 million will eventually cash out. Incredibly, that's 41% of the total.
  • 2.1 million participants, or 14.5% of job-changers, will remain in their former employer's plan. 11.3% of these, or about 243,000, will have stale addresses and be considered missing.

3. Most 401(k) cashouts are completely unnecessary. |

Portability: A “two-fer” solution?

EBRI Tom Hawkins is Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Retirement Clearinghouse.

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