Our tax code ought to help young people get started saving earlier in their careers.
Ron Wyden
The Public Record
Ron Wyden is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Oregon, a position he has held since 1996. A member of the Democratic Party, Wyden has been a prominent advocate for civil liberties, healthcare reform, and technology policy. Throughout his tenure, he has focused on issues such as privacy rights, government surveillance, and access to healthcare, often emphasizing the importance of transparency and accountability in government actions.
ARA also supports Chairman Wyden's Encouraging Americans to Save Act, which is also a key provision in Senator Cardin's and Senator Portman's bipartisan Retirement Security and Savings Act.
Before there was much knowledge of COVID-19, it was already far too difficult for Americans to save for a dignified retirement.
The ARA enthusiastically supports Chairman Wyden's legislation, the Encouraging Americans to Save Act (S. 2452, 117th Congress).
AARP would like to thank Chairman Wyden and Senator Cassidy for recently introducing the Know Your Social Security Act.
It's long past time to crack down on mega-IRAs, which the GAO documented as a problem years and years ago.
ERIC supports treating student loan payments as elected deferrals for the purpose of employer matching contributions.
the abusive use of tax incentives meant to help middle-class savers creates an economic double standard
AARP thanks Chairman Wyden and Ranking Member Crapo for holding a hearing to consider needed improvements.
The success of OregonSaves will have long-term positive implications for savers and for Oregon.
According to the National Institute on Retirement Security, as of 2018 more than 100 million working-age Americans had no pension and no retirement assets.
The Encouraging Americans to Save Act, which was introduced by you, Chairman Wyden, would be a significant boost to OregonSaves.
We commend Chairman Wyden and the many committee members who focused their attention on this issue.
I also support expansion to part-time workers, because part-time workers are low-wage workers.
The ARA strongly supports Chairman Wyden's Retirement Parity for Student Loans Act (S. 1443, 117th Congress)...
I want to thank Chairman Wyden and Ranking Member Crapo for holding this hearing and considering how Congress, building on its long history of bipartisanship on retirement policy, can help improve retirement security for older Americans.
I encourage the Senate Finance Committee, and, ultimately, Congress, to implement into law the Automatic IRA Act and the Encouraging Americans to Save Act.
A recent survey of the impact of the pandemic conducted by AARP found that, among those fortunate enough to have retirement accounts, nearly a quarter had to dip into their savings or quit contributing altogether just to pay the bills.
I introduced the Encouraging Americans to Save Act, to get more help to the working folks who need it so badly.
This is about good policy, helping people, and giving everybody in America the chance to get ahead.
Thank you for your ongoing leadership to achieve critical retirement policy reforms for Americans.
This approach leverages existing private sector solutions in the marketplace instead of causing a massive disruption by replacing the entire existing retirement plan system with a government run program.





