Shai Akabas

“A primary solution to that is finding tools to help employees save for emergencies,”

Shai Akabas · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-22

Shai Akabas suggested tools to help employees build emergency savings to reduce retirement account leakage.

“Leakage from retirement accounts is becoming a bigger and bigger problem,”

Shai Akabas · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-22

Shai Akabas addressed the growing issue of participants taking hardship withdrawals from retirement accounts.

“When it comes to Secure 2.0, the biggest impact that that legislation had was in drawing attention to this problem,”

Shai Akabas · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-22

Shai Akabas evaluated the primary impact of the Secure 2.0 legislation on emergency savings.