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President Barack Obama extended an olive branch on Monday to states struggling to implement his health care law, offering support for a proposal that would give them some flexibility in carrying out its key parts.
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President Barack Obama extended an olive branch on Monday to states struggling to implement his health care law, offering support for a proposal that would give them some flexibility in carrying out its key parts.
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I don't mean to brag (OK, maybe I do just a little), but health insurance premiums for Kalamazoo County, Mich., employees didn't increase this year - not one penny.
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On July 16, 2010, the Department of Labor released an interim final regulation relating to the fees that must be disclosed by service providers working with ERISA-qualified retirement plans. All impacted service providers must comply with the new regulation by Jan. 1, 2012.
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If you have managed retirement plans, you have managed financial audits on those plans. That is, you should have managed the audits, rather than going along with whatever the finance group and the external auditors had in store for you.
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New data from Aon Hewitt show 57% of 401(k) plan sponsors offered automatic enrollment in 2010, compared to 24% in 2006. Thirty-six percent of plan sponsors who don't offer the feature said they are likely to add it in 2011.
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The American Institute of Stress estimates that stress in the workplace costs U.S. corporations over $300 billion annually.
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In November 2010, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Labor provided some relief to employers sponsoring fully insured group health plans by amending the interim final rules on grandfathered plan status under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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The 2010 annual enrollment season saw the opening of the floodgates regarding dependent eligibility, as employers were required under the health care reform law to extend coverage to all dependent children, regardless of student or marital status, to age 26.
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Health risk assessments are used by most wellness program providers and employers as the key to opening the door to employee health improvement.
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