More and more workers are planning to work longer—purely so that they can keep their health benefits.
According to new research by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute, more than half of employees say working longer is their plan so they can keep receiving employer-sponsored health insurance.
If health benefits were guaranteed upon retirement, 27 percent said they would retire earlier than planned—up from 15 percent in 2003, the study found.
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