Auto-enrollment promotes debt as well as savings, study shows

Lower-income employees had the biggest wealth increases from auto-enrollment, but they offset their gains—by as much as 75%—with new installment debt and credit card debt, according to a four-year study of participants in the federal Thrift Savings Plan.

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