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Understanding Employee Health Data Can Help Decrease Costs
Data can inform plan sponsors about what benefits to offer as well as how to steer employee use of benefits.
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Taking a Fresh Look at Health Benefits Will Be Important Throughout the Pandemic
Specific benefit offerings and increased communications are needed to help employees and to keep costs down.
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Why Retirement and Emergency Savings Need to Go Hand in Hand
Nearly 30% of workers have no emergency savings fund, leading many to raid their retirement accounts.
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Employers Begin to See Long-Term Value of Stock Options
Equity compensation has not traditionally been used for retirement savings, but there are ways to incorporate it into employees’ long-term financial plans.
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Wage Hike Meets Support and Opposition From Employers
Opponents say small business could suffer and cut benefits, such as employer contributions to retirement plans, as a result of a $15 minimum wage.
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Retirement Benefits Moving Beyond Just a Retirement Plan
Holistic retirement programs, which include financial wellness, health and voluntary benefits, put employees in a better position to reach their long-term goals.
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More Plan Sponsors Executing Financial Wellness Programs
In addition, program topics that were once a rarity have now become commonplace, and financial well-being offerings are expanding into nontraditional benefits.
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Brokers Agree Self-Insuring Health Benefits Can Save Employers Money
Using claims data to compare fully insured and self-insured benefits, and seeing the flexibility self-insuring provides can help employers overcome their fears about it.
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Employees Want Help To Fully Understand Their Benefits
Employees want employers to educate them throughout the year and offer tools to help them allocate their money among benefits, Voya found.
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Help With Emergency Savings and Caregiving Among Top Benefits Trends in 2021
Interest has also increased in enhancing workplace giving and volunteer programs, student loan debt help and health care advocacy.
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Virginia Throws Its Hat Into the State-Run Retirement Plan Ring
A bill passed by state lawmakers would direct the state’s 529 plan board to set up and administer VirginiaSaves.
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Evaluating HSA Providers
What employers should ask to make sure they choose the right health savings account (HSA) provider for their employees.
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What Employers Need to Know About HSAs
Experts share eligibility requirements, tax treatment rules and allowable expenses for health savings accounts.
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States Looking for Ways to Increase Access to Retirement Plans in 2021
More employers are also likely to offer automatic emergency savings, a Millennium Trust executive says.
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Congress Extends Time Employers Can Help Pay Employee Student Loans
It is expected that employers are now more likely to implement the tax-free payments toward employees' student loans.
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Financial Wellness Programs Need to Include a Way to Measure Success
There are specific metrics that can be measured via data and employee and employer surveys.
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The Changing Attitude Toward HSAs
Considering the need for effective health care in 2020 due to COVID-19, health savings accounts took on new value.
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Pandemic Lowers Employer Health Care Costs for First Time in Decades
It’s uncertain what will happen with costs going forward, however.
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Financial Wellness Programs Should Be Customized for Women
Interrupted careers, greater longevity and other factors call for unique help for women in employer financial wellness programs, a paper from the Retirement Advisor Council suggests.
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Experience and Expectations Show the Need for More Flexible Benefits
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on employees creates a need for more flexible leave and PTO policies, caregiving support, and health and well-being benefits, according to Mercer...