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Assessing Economic Resources in Retirement: The Role of Irregular Withdrawals from Tax-Advantaged Retirement Accounts

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dc.contributor RAND
dc.contributor RAND
dc.contributor Ann Arbor
dc.creator Hurd, Michael D.
dc.creator Rohwedder, Susann
dc.date 2019-01-22T19:39:32Z
dc.date 2019-01-22T19:39:32Z
dc.date 2018-10
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-19T13:30:43Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-19T13:30:43Z
dc.identifier Hurd, Michael D. and Susann Rohwedder. 2018. “Assessing Economic Resources in Retirement: The Role of Irregular Withdrawals from Tax-Advantaged Retirement Accounts,” Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Retirement Research Center (MRRC) Working Paper, WP 2018-387. https://mrdrc.isr.umich.edu/publications/papers/pdf/wp387.pdf
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/147412
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/117386
dc.description Irregular withdrawals from IRAs and DC pensions are not included in standard measures of household income in the CPS or Health and Retirement Study. Yet, among retirees such withdrawals can supplement regular retirement income to finance consumption. It has been difficult to assess their importance, because of lack of informative survey data. In 2012 the HRS restructured the way it collects information about pensions, improving the measurement of irregular withdrawals from pension accounts. We analyzed HRS 2014 data and found that irregular withdrawals from pensions and IRAs totaled $2,049 for singles and $6,663 for couples averaged over everyone age 55 and older. These irregular withdrawals amount to about 5 percent of income for singles and 10 percent of income for married households. Irregular withdrawals are highest among those in the highest wealth quartile and those in the highest education group, reflecting the higher prevalence of pensions in high-paying jobs that are predominantly held by those with high education. Because of the greater frequency of IRA and pension withdrawals towards high SES individuals, accounting for them has little impact on estimates of the poverty rate.
dc.description Social Security Administration, award RRC08098401-10, R-UM18-Q4
dc.description https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147412/1/wp387.pdf
dc.description Description of wp387.pdf : Working paper
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dc.language en_US
dc.publisher Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
dc.relation WP 2018-387
dc.subject Health and Retirement Study, pension withdrawals
dc.subject Population and Demography
dc.subject Social Sciences
dc.title Assessing Economic Resources in Retirement: The Role of Irregular Withdrawals from Tax-Advantaged Retirement Accounts
dc.title WP 2018-387
dc.type Working Paper


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