Benefits Think Majority of employees sacrifice retirement for health care benefits

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Sunlife Financial Inc., a Toronto based financial services organization, released a retirement poll today finding that 64% of employees would continue working past 67 in order to retain health benefits — a motivator that rose from the sixth most popular reason in August to the third in December when the poll was conducted.

Forty to 49 year-olds are most likely to continue working into their golden years, with 77% of them planning to work past the traditional age of retirement for health care benefits, a 60% spike in the last 90 days.


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