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How to Overcome 5 Big Challenges and Improve Your Workers’ Health and Finances

Staff

17 Oct 201817 Oct 2018

As a plan sponsor, you offer a variety of benefits to help your employees stay physically and financially well, but like the old saying goes: “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.” That’s right—Despite your best […]

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Happy and Healthy World Mental Health Day!

rebeccae

10 Oct 201810 Oct 2018

October 10 is World Mental Health Day. Before you run to your local card store—This is NOT one of the holidays where you need to send a card and chocolate, but you can! Recently I wrapped up the International Foundation Mental Health and […]

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How to Measure Financial Education ROI

rebeccae

09 Oct 201827 Feb 2019

Providing financial education to workers isn’t free: it requires planning and resources and requires participants to step away from their work. How can you tell if it is working? In the recent International Foundation report Financial Education for Today’s Workforce: 2018 Survey […]

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Top 10 Mental Health Conditions Employers Are Covering

Anne Patterson

04 Oct 2018

Organizations across the U.S. and Canada are reporting a rise in mental health and substance abuse issues among workers. It’s a continuous challenge for employers to measure the prevalence of mental health and substance abuse, but by providing a range of preventive […]

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How Technology Can Transform the Future of Health Care

Robbie Hartman, CEBS

19 Sep 201818 Sep 2018

“Information is growing faster than we can handle and analyze efficiently, and medical data is expected to double every 73 days by 2020,” says Nathalie Le Prohon, vice president, health care industry for IBM Canada in Montreal, Quebec. But developments in technology […]

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What Employees Want to Know About the CPP and QPP

Lois Gleason, CEBS

01 May 201820 Mar 2019

The Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Quebec Pension Plan (QPP) are operated by the federal and provincial governments, so why would a human resources or benefits professional need to explain them to employees? Seasoned HR professionals know many employees seek them out […]

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Top Reasons for RRSP Early Withdrawals

Jenny Gartman, CEBS

26 Apr 2018

Plan sponsors have a good idea of the financial struggles that employees are facing. But did you know that some people are turning to money saved in Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) for nonretirement needs? Why don’t they have an emergency fund? […]

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From HWTs to ELHTs: The End of Health and Welfare Trusts?

Robbie Hartman, CEBS

19 Apr 2018

The 2018 Canadian federal budget announced that health and welfare trusts (HWTs)—the tax vehicle under which most benefit trusts currently operate—are being phased out by the end of 2020. Still to come from the government are transitional administrative guidance for winding up […]

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Four Trends Impacting Employee Benefits in Canada

Bradley Bauter

08 Mar 201820 Sep 2018

It is hard to believe that we are already into the third month of 2018! After attending several conferences over the past few months in Canada, I have noticed several common trends that are disrupting the benefit and pension industry. Trend 1—Medical […]

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Marijuana Coverage Calls for Clear and Explicit Plan Language

Robbie Hartman, CEBS

09 Jan 201810 Jan 2018

To cover or not to cover, that is the question for benefit plans when it comes to medical marijuana. To avoid the slings and arrows of plan beneficiaries and other Shakespearean drama, plan administrators should check the clarity of their plan language […]