{"id":6288,"date":"2026-01-25T12:59:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T12:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=6288"},"modified":"2026-01-25T12:59:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T12:59:03","slug":"alarming-gap-between-what-retirees-believe-they-need-for-a-comfortable-life-and-what-they-actually-have-saved-report-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/01\/25\/alarming-gap-between-what-retirees-believe-they-need-for-a-comfortable-life-and-what-they-actually-have-saved-report-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Alarming gap between what retirees believe they need for a comfortable life &#8211; and what they actually have saved, report reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new report from Clever Real Estate reveals a staggering gap in US retirement security, with the average retiree possessing only $288,700 despite believing they need over $823,000 for a comfortable life. The study found that 29 percent of retirees have no savings at all, and 64 percent believe the country is facing a genuine retirement crisis. Many retirees are now increasingly dependent on their homes for financial stability, with 45 percent identifying homeownership as the only reason they can afford to retire. Furthermore, the report highlights significant gender disparities, showing that retired women have approximately $70,000 less in savings than their male counterparts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> January 13, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/us\/money\/retirement-savings-report-cost-b2899778.html\">independent.co<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from Clever Real Estate reveals a staggering gap in US retirement security, with the average retiree possessing only $288,700 despite believing they need over $823,000 for a comfortable life. The study found that 29 percent of retirees have no savings at all, and 64 percent believe the country is facing a genuine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":6291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-socio-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6397,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions\/6397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}