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Benefits November 14, 2006
Retirement Savings Gets a Mascot
November 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The lead
character in a series of public service announcements
sponsored by the Employee Benefit Retirement Institute (EBRI)
wears green tights, red shorts, a cape and goes by the name
of "Savingsman."
Reported by Adrien Martin
The announcements are from the EBRI program Choose to Save (CTS) and offer tips to encourage retirement savings.
Savingsman advises his viewers they should use a
retirement planning tool, the
Ballpark E$timate
– a worksheet that helps individuals quickly identify
approximately how much they need to save to fund a
comfortable retirement.The character also advises viewers
to enroll in savings plans at work or open an individual
retirement account (IRA) and, when possible, to cut
spending to make money available for retirement savings or
to avoid credit card debt.
The announcements are archived and available free on the
CTS Web site,
www.choosetosave.org/psas
, along with all previous CTS video public service
announcements.