The market’s decline has already damaged retirement account balances. Now, more companies are cutting the contributions they make to employees’ 401(k) plans to save cash in the economic crisis sparked by the coronavirus.

Amtrak, La-Z-Boy Inc., retailer Mattress Firm Inc., and travel tech company Sabre Corp. are among the first in an expected wave of businesses suspending or reducing matching contributions to employees’ 401(k)s, a move that can have a spillover effect on workers’ own contributions.

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