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Navigating Retirement For Families Of Children With Special Needs

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About half of older Americans dip into their retirement savings to help grown children. When those grown children have special needs, retirement may be out of the picture entirely.

NPR's Ina Jaffe (@InaJaffeNPR) profiles one such family as part of her series on older Americans navigating the new realities of work and retirement.

This segment aired on October 4, 2019.

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