The other three account types will permit savers to make withdrawals and deposits as needed, but the accounts will employ a variable rate that will change based on market conditions.
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Matt Richardson,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
The distance between $167,970 and $44,115 is the architecture of American inequality, expressed in retirement savings data—a small cohort of high-balance savers dragging the average skyward while the rest of the country lives in the median.
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