{"id":114,"date":"2026-10-22T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wealthsmartadvisory.com\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2026-10-22T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:00:00","slug":"financial-stress-limits-retirement-saving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wealthsmartadvisory.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/22\/financial-stress-limits-retirement-saving\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Stress Limits Retirement Saving"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/heinrich-edimo\/financial-stress-retirement-remotion-videos-e522\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Recent survey signals strain: ~60% took outside work, ~70% delayed a major goal, and pressure reached workers across income levels in the US.<br \/>\nRising household costs left less room for retirement saving, and only ~60% felt on track, down ~10 points yearly from the prior survey.<br \/>\nSavings momentum softened: ~40% increased contributions into 2026 versus ~55% into 2025, while only ~57% of Gen X felt jobs delivered financial security.<br \/>\nFinancial strain affected work and milestones: ~54% said focus suffered, ~32% missed work, and many workers deferred emergency savings, debt payoff, or retirement.<br \/>\nPlanning demand was strong: ~80% wanted guaranteed support, and savers with a personalized plan were &gt;2x as likely to feel on track.<br \/>\nmanual_description<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent survey signals strain: ~60% took outside work, ~70% delayed a major goal, and pressure reached workers across income levels in the US. Rising household costs left less room for retirement saving, and only ~60% felt on track, down ~10 points yearly from the prior survey. Savings momentum softened: ~40% increased contributions into 2026 versus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":433,"featured_media":115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wealthsmartadvisory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wealthsmartadvisory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wealthsmartadvisory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wealthsmartadvisory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wealthsmartadvisory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wealthsmartadvisory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/www.wealthsmartadvisory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wealthsmartadvisory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wealthsmartadvisory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wealthsmartadvisory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wealthsmartadvisory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}