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An innovative program has employees shedding pounds without giving up their favorite food.

In a tough economic climate, Baltimore’s Gilman School went the extra mile to prepare its employees for retirement and buying a first home.

While a stock-first withdrawal approach is viewed as a prudent way for retirees to tap into their retirement accounts, advisers should not readily recommend this strategy.

A panel at EBA’s Workplace Benefits Mania shared best practices for advisers to enhance the changing role with employers amid ‘compensation compression.’

The employee benefits world is at a crossroads, said adviser Michael Lujan at EBA’s Workplace Benefits Mania.

Obama's Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces final rule is currently on track for publication, possibly as soon as August 2016, and is likely to be implemented before the end of the year, absent intervention from the legislature or judiciary.

With employers increasingly turning to VBs to fill coverage gaps, insurers like Unum are offering new systems to automate enrollment.

Retirees may receive no increase in benefits in 2017, as the Social Security Trust Fund says that the cost-of-living-adjustment could range between zero to .7%.

Increased competition, more sophisticated brokers are changing the space, Gil Lowerre of Eastbridge Consulting says at EBA’s Workplace Benefits Mania.

The disconnect is leading to treatments that don’t get to the root of the cause, new research finds.