401(k) plan policies like auto-enrollment and auto-escalation have become popular. They aim to boost workers' retirement savings. Pioneering researchers found that the policies may be less effective ...

If your employer’s 401(k) plan has auto-enrollment, you’ll automatically start making contributions to your account once you’re eligible. Under a federal law enacted in 2022, most new 401(k) plans ...

Automatically enrolling workers in a retirement plan is one of the most powerful tools policymakers and retirement plan sponsors have found to increase retirement savings. A bill making its way ...

According to a new research paper released by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College firms that adopt an auto enrollment feature for their 401(k) end up making lower company matches than ...

Only around half of Americans participate in a workplace retirement savings plan, but auto-enrollment can change that. solidcolours/iStock via Getty Images In 2022 the government passed the Securing a ...

Auto-enrollment automatically has workers participating in 401(k) plans. Photo: Anthony Easton, Flickr For too long, lots of eligible workers have not participated in the employer-sponsored 401(k) ...

The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual shared responsibility penalty was reduced to $0 in 2017, effectively repealing the individual mandate and removing a key means of reducing uninsurance. For ...

MetLife Retirement & Savings, an administrator of defined benefit and defined contribution programs, has selected ADP Investor Communication Services to provide 401(k) print services for its small- ...