Fewer employees are likely to get health benefits in retirementas employers drop or change the benefit, the Employee BenefitResearch Institute says.
In 2010, less than 18 percent of workers were employed atcompanies that offered health coverage to early retirees, down from29 percent in 1997. The percentage of non-working retirees over age65 with retiree health benefits now sits at 16 percent.
But despite the fall in retiree health coverage, many workersstill believe they’ll receive it, the new report from thenon-partisan research group finds.
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