Free Webinars Explain Common-Sense Solution to Help More Hawai`i Workers Save

A bill moving through the Legislature would give Hawai`i workers without a retirement savings program an easy way to save at work for a secure future.

AARP Hawai`i is holding free webinars on March 8 and 9 to explain the program to small businesses, nonprofit groups, workers and voters interested in learning about Senate Bill 3289. The bill would create a Hawai`i retirement savings program that businesses could easily offer to workers at little or no cost to the business.

About 215,000 workers in Hawai`i, many of whom work for small businesses, do not have an easy way to save through payroll deduction – the most effective way to save for retirement.

The webinars, on Tuesday, March 8 from noon to 12:30 p.m. and Wednesday, March 9 from 7:30 a.m. to 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. will explain how similar programs are helping workers save in Oregon, California and Illinois, how the program helps small businesses be more competitive with larger businesses, how it could reduce kupuna poverty and how it could save taxpayers more than a billion dollars by reducing the need for government services to help kupuna who retire without sufficient savings.

Register online at aarp.cventevents.com/HIsaves3-8 to get a Zoom link to the webinar or visit aarp.org/nearyou and click on AARP Events to learn about all the virtual events AARP is offering.