Why Retirement Research Matters More Than Ever

Dallas Salisbury of the Consumer Policy Center breaks down wherefore unbiased retirement probe matters—and what it looks similar successful practice. In this episode, Dallas explains however status argumentation and payment decisions often get made with incomplete information, and wherefore relying connected objective, evidence-first investigation is truthful captious erstwhile the stakes impact millions of workers and retirees.

Jeffrey Snyder, Broadcast Retirement Network

Joining maine present is Dallas Salisbury.

He's a elder chap astatine the Consumer Policy Institute, and he's besides the laminitis of the Employee Benefits Research Institute. Dallas, it's ever large to spot you. Thanks for joining america connected the programme this morning.

Dallas Salisbury, Consumer Policy Center

Wonderful to spot you and fantastic to beryllium here.

Jeffrey Snyder, Broadcast Retirement Network

Yeah, arsenic I was recounting to you, I retrieve seeing you backmost successful 2008 astatine the SPARC Institute's yearly forum. You were talking astir each the large information that you collected. We're going to get into that successful a second, but you person a caller gig now.

You're the elder chap astatine the Consumer Policy Institute. What's your absorption now? Is it inactive status and worker benefits?

Dallas Salisbury, Consumer Policy Center

It's each connected worker benefits, idiosyncratic fiscal planning, and a constituent connected caregiving and semipermanent care, nursing homes, assisted surviving facilities.

Jeffrey Snyder, Broadcast Retirement Network

A lot. I cognize Social Security has been apical of caput for you successful the Institute arsenic well.

Dallas Salisbury, Consumer Policy Center

Yes, it has. In fact, the archetypal portion that I person enactment up connected the consumerpolicy.org website is 1 connected Social Security. I person them successful process.

Sometime successful the adjacent mates of months, we'll station them connected the implications implicit clip of leakage from the status strategy and different looking astatine flexibility successful the status system.

Jeffrey Snyder, Broadcast Retirement Network

Very exciting. I look guardant to possibly talking to you astir it determination down the line. Great.

Dallas, the crushed wherefore I'd reached retired to you is I'm precise impressed by the enactment that EBRI does. I person ever been. It's existent probe successful worker benefits.

I wonderment if we could spell backmost successful clip a small bit. Before the founding of EBRI, was determination immoderate probe astir worker benefits that existed?

Dallas Salisbury, Consumer Policy Center

There was data, but not a full batch of research. The probe that was being done was astir wholly retired of the government. In fact, the Social Security Administration created a Bureau and Office of Research and Statistics successful 1935.