Benefits Think

Plan sponsors should encourage the use of a vision carrier’s website, explain the connection between vision benefits and flexible spending accounts and send multiple reminders about the benefit to workers.

Companies should help employees make the most of high-deductible plans by assisting them in preparing for anticipated medical expenses.

Safe harbor 401(k)s and cash-balance options can often maximize contribution levels while saving plan sponsors’ tax money.

Companies can be punished for even unintentional slip-ups, and financial and legal penalties can be crippling.

This is the ‘make or break’ period for brokers to retain and attract clients for the coming year.

Employers in the Bay State will have to provide more frequent breaks, job restructuring and modified work schedules.

The Disaster Tax Relied and Airport and Airway Extension Act provide both hardship distribution tax relief and more generous participation loan rules for those living in areas hit by recent disasters.

Companies should help employees make the most of high-deductible plans by assisting them in preparing for anticipated medical expenses.

The addition of analytics allows organizations to better plan and manage the time of staffers who take to the road.

Companies can be punished for even unintentional slip-ups, and financial and legal penalties can be crippling.