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Pensions at a Glance 2009: Highlights for the US

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23-Jun-2009

The United States’ private pension funds have been heavily hit by the financial crisis, with real losses of 26.2% in 2008... Nearly one in four US seniors live in poverty on international measures. This is the fifth highest old-age poverty in the OECD countries just under double the OECD average

Governments and industry should invest more in financial education, warns OECD

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29-Apr-2008

OECD countries have agreed new good practices on financial education relating to private pensions and insurance that

Trends in Severe Disability Among Elderly People (Health Working Paper No. 26)

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30-Mar-2007

Gaétan Lafortune, Gaëlle Balestat

As the number and share of the population aged 65 and over will continue to grow steadily in OECD countries over the next decades, improvements in the functional status of elderly people could help mitigate the rise in the demand for, and hence expenditure on, long-term care.

Testimony on Pension Reforms (Presentation of Edward R. Whitehouse at the United States House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means)

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16-Jun-2005

Edward R. Whitehouse

The first part of this testimony puts the United States’ pension system in an international context. The second part looks at structural pension reforms that have introduced some kind of mandatory ‘individual accounts’ as a substitute for all or part of public, earnings-related pensions...&