With many companies currently conducting open enrollment, numbers are expected to rise come January.
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The Plan Sponsor Council of America outlines its concerns over the DOLs proposal to impose fiduciary requirements on retirement advisers.
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Concerns about over-regulation and accusations of industry cynicism led the opening of the Labor Department's hearings on its proposal to impose fiduciary requirements on retirement advisers the latest phase of its contentious process to craft new rules on consumer protections.
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Connecticuts AccessHealthCT is poised to become the nations first state-run marketplace that will be financially self-sustaining in 2016 when federal grants end for these online marketplaces as stipulated under the Affordable Care Act.
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While Montana has one of the nations lowest head counts, it ranked a close second behind New Hampshire in terms of the highest rate of 2015 public exchange re-enrollment among 34 states that direct their residents to Healthcare.gov.
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Working in partnership with USI and GoHealth, the payroll firms platform will serve populations with employer-provided benefits as well as those who must purchase through public exchanges.
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There is some support among employers to increase the cap on H-1B visas, allowing more foreign workers to be temporarily employed in the U.S., yet the majority remains opposed to issuing more of the visas.
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For the first time, brokers and agents will be eligible to receive continuing education credits through the training, which is required to eligible to sell on the federal marketplace.
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Three Republican senators have sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services expressing concern for the lack of oversight for more than $1 billion in federal grants given to state-based marketplaces.
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State-based marketplaces were overall quite successful in retaining enrollees, however, a large number of consumers shopping within the marketplace during 2015 open enrollment decided to switch plans based on the price of services offered.
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While states are starting to realize they need to step up and help private sector employers better prepare their employees for retirement, Americans continue to fall short in meeting their economic needs in retirement.
August 3