Commentary: Why exclude an individual if they want to sign up for short-term disability on their Xbox or refrigerator’s Wi-Fi enabled display? This is what people expect in 2015.

Even with an employer match, many employees still choose not to contribute to their 401(k) plan.

Jiff CEO Derek Newell discusses the role data analytics plays in reducing health care costs as well as the company’s relationship with benefit brokers.

Satisfaction with supermarket and chain drug store pharmacies has increased slightly, while satisfaction with mail-order pharmacies has decreased.

Advisers need to help clients understand their workforce, outline clear objectives and communicate effectively if employers want to establish a successful wellness program.

The employee purchase program vendor enters the financial wellness space with a new service.

The Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges primarily affects the administration of benefits and almost exclusively applies to employers in those states that previously did not recognize same-sex marriage.

Commentary: Good faith effort, transition relief, 30-day extension and other safety nets for 6055 and 6066 tax filing.

Despite the wide range of cannabis program laws, consistent themes have begun to emerge.

Commentary: EBA columnist Nelson Griswold says benefits RFPs are universally awful and HR should abandon them. Advisers, he says, should also be wary of them.

The National Institute on Retirement Security takes issue with a recent Manhattan Institute report on pensions, saying it is irrelevant and highly flawed.

A successful employee benefit program has to be in harmony with the culture of the organization.

While the HR tech platform Zenefits offers a solution that addresses certain employer pain points, it also asks employers to dump their current broker. A new tech solution promises the same benefits without asking employers to sever their current broker relationship.

Beyond benefits, employees are looking for clearly defined career paths and providing them one might help employers' retention strategies.

Plan sponsors wishing to offer a professionally managed series of investment funds should note the following problems with target-risk funds that cause them to be vastly inferior to target-date funds.

Some have compared the changes in health care to the changes that occurred in the retirement industry 30 years ago when companies switched from pension plans to 401(k) plans and put the responsibility on consumers to pick investments. But George Tzinas, chief experience officer at BenefitAlign, says it is not the same.

Separating fact from fiction when it comes to the Affordable Care Act is no easy task. Here are 13 common misconceptions about the law.

Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker stitched together a series of popular conservative health care ideas in his newly unveiled ACA replacement plan Tuesday.

Warnings of billions in crippling costs and TV attack ads are the latest salvos from opponents of the Labor Department's fiduciary rule after hearings closed last week. The industry's newest claim is that independent firms could get hit with a bill tallying up to $3.9 billion in startup costs alone should the rule go into effect.

Class action lawsuits claim the professional services firm breached its fiduciary duty by agreeing to the $18 billion deal.