Emergency Savings

Wealth Building at Work: How Canary’s Emergency Relief Fund Helps Workers Maintain Assets and Avoid Debt

Aspen FSP partnered with Canary, a provider of employee emergency relief funds, to explore how workers used this workplace offering when faced with financial emergencies, as well as how it impacted their financial security and experiences at work.

December 16, 2025

How Workplace Emergency Savings Accounts Can Boost Employee Well-Being

Aspen FSP partnered with SecureSave, a provider of workplace emergency savings accounts (ESAs), to survey 274 SecureSave users about their financial well-being and catalyze a conversation around ESAs.

December 15, 2025

A Persistent Challenge: How Financial Shocks Continue to Undermine Family Financial Security

Most households experience at least one financial shock in a given year, but there are few comprehensive solutions to help them. How can we solve this persistent challenge?

October 30, 2025

How the National Strategy for Financial Inclusion Can Scale Emergency Savings

The U.S. Treasury’s Strategy notes the need for greater coordination among the private sector and the government to scale emergency savings.

May 5, 2025
Jason Ewas presents at the Aspen Leadership Forum on Retirement Savings.

Rainy Days Don’t Retire: Older Adults, Financial Shocks, and the Promise of Emergency Savings Tools

Learn more about how we can tailor emergency savings tools to older adults.

March 22, 2024

At a Tipping Point: The Workplace Emergency Savings Landscape as SECURE 2.0 Implementation Begins in 2024

As we enter a post-SECURE 2.0 world, we offer policymakers and employers fresh evidence that supports four pillars of the emergency savings field.

January 12, 2024

Ideas That Shaped 2022

January 17, 2023

We Can Advance Economic Equity Through Automatic Enrollment for Emergency Savings

Policymakers can make emergency savings easier for people with low and moderate incomes.

October 11, 2022