Social Security: Growing Importance

When pre-retirees (full-time workers aged 56 to 65) are asked which one financial product or service is more important to them now than it was five years ago, the 45 percent plurality says Social Security. This is up from 33 percent of the age group who said Social Security was growing in importance when asked the same question in 2008.

Source: MetLife Mature Market Institute, The 2011 MetLife Retirement Income IQ