Benefits Think

Detailing findings from Employee Benefit Research Institute/Commonwealth Fund research, I confront my misgivings about enrolling in a high-deductible health plan with an HSA. Download my podcast here.

Stats show most of us spend 60 minutes or less a month maintaining or building our professional network. In hygiene terms, that's pretty nasty, no?

President Barack Obama yesterday announced his selection of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) to lead the Health and Human Services Department.

Wrapped with a bow, ready-made for the "technology-as-a-curse" files is a new site and application from Telonu Inc. that, by the company's own description, allows current and former employees to "rave, rant and rate your workplace and the people there."

Thanks so much for sharing news of our latest research mini-brief, "Work-Family Information on Small Businesses" with your blog readers. For those seeking additional statistics, overviews and briefs, or links on this same subject, please visit our topic page: Small Business and Work-Family, at: http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/topic.php?id=43....

With all of the health-related regulatory changes coming fast and furiously lately -- FMLA, ADA, COBRA, insert series of letters here -- it could be easy to forget that retirement plans saw some pretty massive regulatory shifts as well. In particular, the final rules applying to 403(b) plans -- which...

With the stimulus package recently enacted, and subsequent Cobra subsidy through employers shows a step in the right direction, with keeping the delivery of health benefits through the employer based system. The COBRA subsidy is not directly given to the employee, which is definitely a good thing. Another...

The bad news is, employers see the current recession lasting a while. The good news is, they also seem to think the worst of layoff and other cuts is past.

Taxing the rich at 100% won't pay for Obama's budget. The Wall Street Journal has reported that taxing the rich at 100% won't pay for Obama's budget. Barack Obama promised not to raise taxes on anyone making under $250,000 per year. Where is he going to get the money? The numbers indicate Obama will need...

Look for a legal analysis on the new COBRA requirements in our April 15 issue, thanks to our legal expert and regular columnist Frank Palmieri.