Employee benefits

A lesson for benefit advisers: What happens when an employer uses gamification to develop a benefits plan?

The social media company says it adopted a self-funded healthcare model due to frustration over its previous provider’s prices and services.

Springbuk’s Health Intelligence tool uses claims data to paint a picture of workers’ health.

Can state-mandated retirement plans be the start of a national blueprint?

If spending $5 a day on fancy coffee puts your retirement at risk, you’ve got bigger problems.

As the price of prescription drugs soar, advisers need to find more innovative strategies to help clients lower costs.

Patient care can be enhanced by glucose monitoring technology, but it should never replace personalized care.

The company will move to $13 an hour in June, bringing the retailer closer to the goal it set of reaching $15 an hour by the end of next year.

The company, which has more than 700,000 accounts, now allows employees to view their election amounts and total account, investment and cash balances, among other updates.

Definite steps are needed to improve worker prospects: Employees should save more. Clients should offer auto-enrollment. And Congress should make it all easier.

The social media company says it adopted a self-funded healthcare model due to frustration over its previous provider’s prices and services.

Here's what happened when one employer used gamification to develop a benefits plan.

Though there is concern automation could render the role of the broker obsolete, one thing is certain: Personalized attention and expertise is something not easily replaced.

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy says he’s reaching across the aisle to find a fix to mandated paid family leave.

Definite steps are needed to improve worker prospects: Employees should save more. Employers should offer auto-enrollment. And Congress should make it all easier.

Using data can help your clients create a more personalized benefits program their employees will actually use.

The new policy will require health and education benefits, sick leave, a $15 minimum wage and paid parental leave for contract workers.

The brokerage has acquired Northwestern Benefit for an undisclosed amount in its fifth deal this year.

Backers say the Secure Act could help the “black hole” of retirement savings — the 50 million Americans without an employer savings plan.

The company’s Benefit Scout offering aims to help employees better understand their insurance offerings and the amount of coverage to select.