Around 20% of Americans have no retirement savings, survey finds [Video]

(InvestigateTV) — More than one in five adults have no retirement savings, according to an AARP survey.

The AARP and the Ad Council launched a campaign called “This is Pretirement” to help encourage people to seriously think about their retirement plans.

“The idea of creating a new campaign to give people small, actionable steps, to really get their retirement savings on track but remove that shame and fear, which is all over us when it really comes to retirement savings,” Mary Liz Burns with the AARP said.

“You know, we did a financial trends survey, we’ve been doing it since the pandemic,” she continued. “One in five adults, our latest survey of people 30 and 30+, have no retirement savings,” Burns reported. “Those who do have retirement savings, two-thirds of them think I’m going to outlive them, they’re not going to be around for me. And so folks think what am I going to do as …