EBRI: Low-Income Workers to Benefit from PPA Provisions
Along with opening the door for automatic enrollment, the PPA allows employers to automatically increase a worker’s 401(k) contribution to coincide with a raise or a work anniversary-though the employee can decline both enrollment and the increase.
The findings by EBRI suggest that the introduction of automatic escalation will result in a significant increase of 401(k) accumulations-especially for low-income workers-compared with estimates previously determined for automatic enrollment.
The automatic escalation scenarios executed by the Washington, D.C.-based group were found to increase 401(k) accumulations by 11% – 28% for 401(k) participants in the lowest-income group and 5% – 12% for participants in the highest-income group.