Benefits Think

In this fragile economic state, retirement plan participants need all the help they can get to protect their assets. To help you help them, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans have joined forces to educate employers about retirement scams...

A new national survey by Grant Thornton LLP reveals that 55% of CFOs say they have seen credit costs increase, and 64% have found credit more difficult to come by than one year ago.

Even before the long-simmering financial crisis exploded two weeks ago, most research on the subject showed that baby boomers (all 78 million of 'em) largely were delaying retirement. They were doing so for multiple reasons: feeling they still had something to contribute to the workforce, wanting to stay...

Being stuck on a train gives a person lots of time to think. Recently, it got EBN Editor Kelley Butler thinking about the importance of commuter benefits. Hear her impassioned plea.

Data recently released by the U.S. division of Sun Life Financial reveals that almost half (48%) of the American workforce believes it will still be working at the traditional retirement age of 67, and four of the five top reasons given were not financial in nature.

As a benefit manager, doing your part to support our nation's veterans may include helping them secure comprehensive health benefits. To learn more about what's available and legal for your veteran workforce, read the current EBN.

In this occasional series of dispatches from our Canadian editor Sheryl Smolkin, we explore areas of Canadian HR/Benefits information that would be of use to American readers.

IRS Issues Guidance on Cafeteria Plan Distributions to Reservists Called to DutyThis past week the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") issued guidance on implementing provisions of the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008 or "HEART," relating to health Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) in...

During a recent online discussion of strategies for successful worksite enrollments, it became clear that a broker/adviser will frequently conduct a needs-based sale with the company's C-suite or other benefits decisionmakers but not with individual workers.

In this month for sweets and scares, EBN Editor Kelley Butler brings you the best of the October issue -- including the sweet story of a maternity program that yielded not only a 2:1 ROI but a set of healthy triplets, and they scary tale of employers skimming $58 billion in unpaid payroll taxes. These...