Employee benefits

Employees should look into filing for Social Security as soon as they retire to generate extra income and allow their spouse to delay and grow their retirement benefit.

Addressing musculoskeletal disorders could cut presenteeism and other medical costs in large and small workplaces.

The agency uses Letters 226J and 227 to assess ACA penalties from employers, and clients who receive them could have millions at stake.

A rumored acquisition could give the nation’s largest employer control of healthcare for its 1.5 million U.S. employees, drive down costs and increase the number of employers looking to disrupt the industry.

Updated calculators and a leaner interface are intended to raise awareness of “retirement readiness.”

Web-based tools yield positives by adding robust benefits features to cost-effective HCM systems.

Regardless of the regulation’s future, employers need to ensure they’re passing costs on to plan participants that are reasonable in light of the services provided.

These vehicles are already popular, but advisers can help encourage even greater participation and savings.

The biopharmaceutical giant says it made the changes to better complement its work-life benefits and remain competitive.

Regardless of the regulation’s future, employers need to ensure they’re passing costs on to plan participants that are reasonable in light of the services provided.

Addressing musculoskeletal disorders could cut presenteeism and other medical costs in large and small workplaces.

By taking these into account, advisers can do a better job of helping employees prepare for their golden years.

Hailed as a more rational way for employers to pay for healthcare, the case highlight’s the strategy’s risks.

Different threats from major shifts in two industries are pushing Walmart Inc. and health insurer Humana Inc. toward the same solution.

Thanks to a higher level of scrutiny from regulators, many insurers also act as financial managers and this leads employers to find elective benefit alternatives.

Citing tax reform savings, the fast food chain will invest $150 million over the next five years for tuition assistance for its workers.

Employees are likely to miss their retirement targets if they are helping their children and loved ones more than what they can afford.

GAO requests that the IRS clarify how taxpayers report their participation to gain understanding of plans that could lead to exemption.

Rising star adviser Adam Berkowitz has rejected the benefits industry’s status quo — and found dozens of new clients in the process.