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Benefits advisers and HR executives know a lot about health and wellness programs. We read about them, discuss them, recommend them and - increasingly - implement and run them.

On New Years Day, millions of Americans will awaken to a very unpleasant surprise. Hundreds of medicines and drugs they were able to purchase just the day before on a tax-free basis will no longer be available tax-free.

Although a good number of employers now offer domestic partner benefits, a smaller slice provide tax equity to domestic partners regarding those benefits. According to Todd Solomon, a partner in the employee benefits practice at McDermott Will & Emery, there recently has been a great deal of public attention about the tax inequities of domestic partner benefits, particularly regarding a practice known as “grossing-up.”

Beverly Beattie, founder and president of Selden Beattie Benefit Advisors, is in the vanguard of advisers who are executing a plan to thrive, not just survive, in the post-reform era. Watch an interview with Beattie on our new video channel, Adviser TV.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued guidance to manufacturers and importers of branded prescription drugs on the annual fee imposed by the health care law.

Legg Mason recently announced it has formed the Legg Mason Retirement Advisory Council, comprised of 14 industry leaders who will meet quarterly to discuss major challenges facing retirement products, service provides and best practices.

The Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration issued a proposed rule aimed at providing participants in retirement plans with more information on how target-date funds operate.

Two efforts to repeal PPACA’s 1099 filing requirement failed in the U.S. Senate on Monday. Under that requirement, approximately 40 million businesses would have to file a Form 1099 for every vendor that sells them more than $600 in goods.

Skip the Christmas cookies; employees want cash, according to an annual survey from Randstad. According to the survey, 93% of workers would rather receive a bonus than have a holiday party this year.

The economy might be making a slow return to health, but for many baby boomers, that upturn cannot happen fast enough.