{"id":266030,"date":"2026-02-03T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/266030\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T20:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:24:07","slug":"less-than-half-of-non-retired-canadians-have-workplace-pension-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/266030\/","title":{"rendered":"Less than half of non-retired Canadians have workplace pension plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0February 03, 2026 at 9:20AM EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0February 03, 2026 at 9:20AM EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">WINNIPEG \u2014 A new report says less than half of non-retirees in Canada have a workplace pension plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ig.ca\/en\/media-room\/media-releases\/annual-ig-wealth-management-retirement-study-rising-costs-and-competing-priorities-challenge-canadians-retirement-readiness\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ig.ca\/en\/media-room\/media-releases\/annual-ig-wealth-management-retirement-study-rising-costs-and-competing-priorities-challenge-canadians-retirement-readiness\">IG Wealth Management\u2019s annual retirement study<\/a> says a generational shift is re-shaping how Canadians approach retirement as 48 per cent of non-retirees have a workplace pension plan, whether it be a defined-benefit or defined-contribution plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The report notes many are struggling to keep up with the change as only 11 per cent of non-retired Canadians say they know how much annual income they will need in retirement, while 49 per cent say they simply do not know at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It also says only one-third of non-retired Canadians have a retirement plan and savings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The online survey of 1,350 Canadian adults was done by Pollara Strategic Insights, on behalf of IG Wealth Management, between Jan. 9 and to 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The polling industry\u2019s professional body, the Canadian Research Insights Council, says online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error because they do not randomly sample the population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 3, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0February 03, 2026 at 9:20AM EST Published:\u00a0February 03, 2026 at 9:20AM EST WINNIPEG \u2014 A new report says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,6721,111,139,69,244,245,14193],"class_list":{"0":"post-266030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-labour","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-personal-finance","15":"tag-personalfinance","16":"tag-your-money"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}