Employee benefits

It’s vital for benefits managers to do their homework and select the right vendor—or risk losing millions of dollars while making no change to health outcomes.

Retiree investors can use safe withdrawal rates and maintain a diversified portfolio with more asset classes, writes Wade Pfau, professor at The American College.

The Self-Insurance Protection Act, already passed by the House, aims to assure stop-loss insurance will continue to be available to self-funded employers.

Sally Poblete’s Wellthie offers broker and comparison shopping tools that simplify plan option choices for small businesses and employees.

Movement builds across boardrooms and political corridors to accommodate more workplace flexibility as supporters eye national policy.

Workers should not necessarily consider a 401(k) the first stop for retirement savings.

When it comes to motivation, employers need to realize it isn’t all about money. Workers want to feel like they have a purpose, says Steffen Maier.

Minimize the risk of bringing in a producer who has misappropriated trade secrets by asking proactive questions, says lawyer John Birmingham Jr.

Expanding clinical consultations, utilizing available data and studying drug effectiveness are top avenues to plan improvement.

Seniors should consider getting a second opinion when developing a Social Security claiming strategy, as they might be ill-advised the first time.

EBN Benefits Technology Innovator Ofer Leidner’s Happify targets mental well-being by helping workers understand the source of their feelings.

The regulation’s debut is approaching and the Department of Labor is already talking about fixes. Here is what to look out for.

The majority of respondents to a Fidelity Investments survey misidentified the greatest expense after leaving the workforce.

As federal and state leave laws and regulations evolve, executives are looking to improve their current employee programs.

An appeals court’s recent decision allows employers to legally pay women less than men for the same work based on differences in workers’ previous pay.

House Republicans took up Tuesday a bill to allow companies to offer employees compensatory time rather than time-and-a-half pay, an overhaul of New Deal-era employment law

Employers should consider a number of factors when weighing the advantages of going this route.

Be cautious with these arrangements, says adviser Craig Hasday, as they can negatively influence overall cost of care and be subject to abuse.

Plan sponsors need to improve employees' well-being by actively encouraging roll-ins.

MedPut is aimed at low-income employees who may not be able to afford immediate healthcare costs associated with high-deductible health plans.