Benefits Think

Retaining valued employees is more important than ever. Learn how tuition benefit programs work from Linda Blandford-Beringsmith, a vice president at Robert Half International.

Take steps to prevent medical identity theft. According to the Report on Patient Privacy, some 250,000 are victims of medical identity fraud each year -- where people assume another person's identity to receive medical care. As the economic downturn could cause the incidences to spike, RPP offers tips...

Although flagging in recent years from low employee enrollment, consumer-driven health plans are getting a serious second look from employers that cannot sustain any more rate hikes amid the struggling economy, AIS Health reports.

Welcome to this web-exclusive podcast focused on your careers - not the needs of your clients or employees, but on how to take care of #1 in today's downtrodden economic state. Last week, first-time unemployment claims rose to the highest level since September 2001, and more cuts are surely around the...

The DOL clarified new FMLA provisions today, the first since the law was enacted in 1993.

When brainstorming ways to better educate your employees about the decisions they need to make at open enrollment, it's often imperative that benefits professionals put themselves in an employee's shoes.

Did you know that it costs 150% of an employee's annual salary to replace them? In today's Web-exclusive podcast, Richard Hart of Proactive Resolutions talks about how to get employees to proactively deal with difficult workplace situations and offers tips on how HR can mitigate potentially job-threatening...

Check out the IRS' YouTube presentation on complying with the soon-to-be effective 403(b) regulations. You won't regret it; Jan. 1 will be here before you know it.

President-elect Obama, take note: A pre-election survey by Buck Consultants finds that U.S. employers want to continue to provide health coverage to their employees, but are against a government mandate to do so.

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