Benefits

April 30, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Civilian workers compensation costs were up a seasonally adjusted 0.6% in the first quarter, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported.

April 30, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Connecticut state senators have approved a bill allowing law enforcement officers to receive workers’ compensation benefits after suffering a life-threatening animal attack.

April 30, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In 2009, 76% of mutual fund–owning households indicated that their primary financial goal for their fund investments was saving for retirement, according to...

April 30, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to an updated survey by CareerBuilder, 51% of workers who were laid off in the last three months have found new full-time...

April 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A majority of Americans have a false perception of how stock market investments fared last year, and are still uneasy about investing in...

April 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health insurers will no longer revoke customers' coverage once they get sick, as part of an industrywide ban on a practice known as...

April 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new Towers Watson study of incentive plan designs shows executive-only incentive programs are now the exception rather than the rule and that...

April 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite the considerable preparations necessary to implement auto enrollment, only a small proportion of U.K. employers appear to have taken steps to implement...

April 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former employee of a massage business in Australia has been fined $1,500 after admitting to misleading jobseekers by failing to reveal they...

April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Having disability income protection can help blunt the emotional and financial impacts of being laid up for an extended period, insurer MetLife said...

April 28, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – UnitedHealth Group and WellPoint have said they will stop dropping health coverage for customers after they get sick, ahead of the September 23...

April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new survey finds uninsured medical expenses are frequently cited along with retirement savings as the most pressing financial concern for Americans.

April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – New coverage available to children of employees up to age 26 under the health reform law could cost employers with 5,000 or more...

April 28, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Employees of state and local governments earn an average of 11% and 12% less, respectively, than comparable private sector employees, according to a...

April 28, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments finds that more than half (55%) of newly eligible investors who have old 401(k)s with former employers are not certain whether...

April 28, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new long-term study of the health of British adults concludes that smoking and drinking too much, being a couch potato, and eating...

April 28, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) at the U.S. Department of Labor supplies hard numbers to a complaint...

April 28, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some HTML readers may have had a problem with the click-through to today's survey...

April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new Putnam Investments survey found 14% of Americans plan to fully fund an IRA in 2010, down sharply from the 23% seen...

April 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than a third of the nation’s employers have at least some employees for whom coverage would be considered “unaffordable” under the newly...