{"id":17006,"date":"2019-09-30T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/canadians-increasingly-putting-retirement-savings-on-back-burner-survey-136373"},"modified":"2019-09-30T16:00:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T20:00:44","slug":"canadians-increasingly-putting-retirement-savings-on-back-burner-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/canadians-increasingly-putting-retirement-savings-on-back-burner-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians increasingly putting retirement savings on back burner: survey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Retirement.png\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Canadians increasingly putting retirement savings on back burner: survey\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;September 30, 2019 <\/p>\n<p>As Canadians struggle to make ends meet and manage growing debt, they\u2019re increasing putting their future financial plans \u2014 including retirement \u2014 on the back burner, according to a new survey by BDO Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, which polled more than 2,000 Canadians,&nbsp;found more \u2014 39 per cent compared to 31 per cent in 2018 \u2014&nbsp;said they have no retirement savings, including 32 per cent of baby boomers and seniors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/pensions\/retirement\/majority-of-canadians-worried-about-level-of-retirement-savings-survey-106825\">Majority of Canadians worried about level of retirement savings: survey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 38 per cent of generation X said they have no retirement savings, compared to 33 per cent in 2018. Almost half (47 per cent) said they can\u2019t afford to save for retirement and 19 per cent said they need to pay off debts first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn increasing number of Canadians in their 40s and 50s are financially stretched and unprepared for retirement and unexpected costs,\u201d said&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-person\">Doug Jones<\/span>, president of BDO Canada\u2019s financial recovery services practice, in a press release. \u201cThis can lead to a greater reliance on debt to support living expenses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The majority (82 per cent) of&nbsp;working Canadians&nbsp;said they think younger generations will have to work longer than the generation before them, compared to 75 per cent who said the same in 2018.&nbsp;And 69 per cent of survey respondents said that, even if they save, they&nbsp;still won\u2019t have enough to last through their retirement years, compared to 64 per cent who said the same in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/pensions\/retirement\/four-ideas-to-mitigate-challenges-of-canadas-retirement-savings-gap-105546\">Four ideas to mitigate challenges of Canada\u2019s retirement savings gap<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/canadians-increasingly-putting-retirement-savings-on-back-burner-survey-136373\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;September 30, 2019 As Canadians struggle to make ends meet and manage growing debt, they\u2019re increasing putting their future financial plans \u2014 including retirement \u2014 on the back burner, according to a new survey&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}