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Financial Wellness: October is Retirement Security Month

Posted By: HR avatar

Published to Newsletter on Sep 29, 2021

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It’s always important to consider your well-being from a holistic point of view, including your finances. National Retirement Security Month (formerly National Retirement Security Week) coming up in October is an opportunity to think about your retirement goals and figure out if you are on-target or need to make some progress.

A new study from Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) revealed 72% of us believe we can live comfortably in retirement, but only 29% of us feel very confident. Two-thirds of us are worried we won’t have enough money in retirement, and workers who have a retirement plan or plans at work have significantly more set aside. Only 3 out of 5 of us have a very good understanding of how our retirement plans actually work. And only 38% of us have calculated how much we and our spouses or significant others will likely need to cover health care expenses in retirement.

Six Actions You Can Take to Keep Moving in the Right Direction

  • Create or re-establish a budget and stick to it for managing your spending and saving.
  • Set up or rebuild your emergency fund.
  • Open an account and start saving (or save more as you get older) for retirement using your UNM-sponsored voluntary retirement plan.
  • Name a primary and a contingent beneficiary (or beneficiaries) for your accounts, including your NMERB pension or Alternative Retirement Plan, your voluntary UNM 403b and 457b retirement plan(s), and your life insurance, as well as other assets and valuable items such as your home (ask your mortgage company to help set this up).
  • Get to know a financial professional who can provide you with a complimentary retirement plan projection as often as annually.
  • If you missed this sixth step in August (National Make-A-Will Month), create your will and let your loved ones know where it is located. You can do this in twenty seconds on freewill.com for free.

Want to help someone you care about have a more comfortable retirement, too? Share this article with your friends and family, talk to others about how they are feeling regarding their financial security during their retirement years, and add a post about National Retirement Month on your social media.

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