{"id":13,"date":"2017-07-21T12:20:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hr-education-center\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2025-12-03T13:31:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:31:23","slug":"bu-ret-savings-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hr-education-center\/bu-ret-savings-program\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Retirement Savings Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The BU Retirement Savings Program: Understanding the Contributions<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0MGtVqGd-Wk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\nRegardless of your age, the time to think about retirement is now. With careful planning, you can help make your retirement years a more comfortable and secure time of life for you\u2014and your family.<\/p>\n<p>Your retirement benefits include a set of plans collectively called the BU Retirement Savings Program:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/files\/2017\/08\/blue-wallet.png\" alt=\"blue-wallet\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8109\" width=\"28\" height=\"26\" \/><span>\u00a0<\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/finances\/retirement-plan\/\">The BU Retirement Plan<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, for University contributions only<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/files\/2017\/08\/red-wallet.png\" alt=\"red-wallet\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8110\" width=\"29\" height=\"27\" \/><span>\u00a0<\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/finances\/supplemental-retirement-savings-plan\/\">The Supplemental Retirement &amp; Savings Plan<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, for your contributions only<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/files\/2017\/08\/red-wallet.png\" alt=\"red-wallet\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8110\" width=\"29\" height=\"27\" \/><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/finances\/457b-savings-plan\/\"><span><strong>\u00a0The 457(b) Savings Plan<\/strong><\/span>,<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>for additional tax-deferred contributions for highly paid faculty and staff<\/p>\n<p>Additional retirement plan resources regarding your investment choices can be found on the Human Resources <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/finances\/retirement-planning-resources-tools\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BU Retirement Savings Program: Understanding the Contributions \ufeff\ufeff Regardless of your age, the time to think about retirement is now. With careful planning, you can help make your retirement years a more comfortable and secure time of life for you\u2014and your family. Your retirement benefits include a set of plans collectively called the BU [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1379,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hr-education-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hr-education-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hr-education-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hr-education-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hr-education-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hr-education-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hr-education-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/hr-education-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}