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6 Tips to Swap Employee ACA Confusion With Health Benefits Appreciation

Lois Gleason, CEBS

17 Oct 2017

Are your employees upset and confused about Affordable Care Act (ACA) individual marketplace headlines? In the past month they may have heard about large increases in ACA individual exchange premiums, health insurers pulling out of certain U.S. counties, reductions in mandatory coverage […]

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Talking Benefits Podcast Episode 10: Please Hold

Staff

13 Oct 201713 Oct 2017

Benefits news has been far from static in the past few weeks. After a month buzzing with activity and few definitive answers, news broke late Thursday with two new announcements from the White House impacting the future of ACA. Listen to today’s […]

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Five Proposed Health Savings Account (HSA) Changes

Guest Contributor

22 Aug 201722 Aug 2017

Republicans in Washington, D.C. have been busy this year, attempting to pass substantial health care legislation. We’ve watched each of the following slip away: the American Health Care Act of 2017 (AHCA), Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 (BCRA), Sen. Rand Paul’s […]

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Put a Ring On It or Lose Domestic Partner Benefits

Staff

01 Aug 201709 Aug 2018

Following the Supreme Court’s landmark 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage, a growing number of employers are requiring same-sex couples to marry to receive health care benefits. For many employers, domestic partner benefits were a way to provide equal coverage to employees […]

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Disability Benefits: An Overlooked Piece of the Employee Benefits Package

Staff

20 Jul 201712 Mar 2018

When weighing the employee benefits package of a new job, candidates definitely consider the health care benefits, probably read over the retirement plan and will no doubt investigate the number of vacation days—But few new hires take time to consider the disability […]

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Health Plans Lose that Lovin’ Feeling for Spouses

Guest Contributor

10 Apr 201731 Jul 2019

We like to think that everyone loves our spouses, but in truth, there are an increasing number of employers who would like to rid themselves of employees’ better halves . . . No, there’s no conspiracy to physically off our loved ones […]

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State of Self-Funding State Benefit Plans

Teri Dougherty, CEBS

16 Mar 201716 Mar 2017

Governor Scott Walker recently proposed self-funding Wisconsin’s $1.5 billion health insurance program for 250,000 state and local government workers and their dependents. For now, it is a proposal that is being heavily debated in the Wisconsin State Legislatures Joint Finance Committee. If […]

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Compliance Checkup—ACA, SPD, COBRA

Kathy Bergstrom, CEBS

13 Feb 201718 Aug 2017

The future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains uncertain, but employee benefit plan sponsors should be alert for compliance issues that aren’t going away. Scott Segal addressed common compliance errors during his presentation “Employee Benefits Compliance ‘Hot Topics’” during the 26th […]

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Talking Benefits—Legislative Limbo

Staff

10 Feb 201710 Feb 2017

Naturally, we love to talk benefits here at the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans. So when a couple of our resident benefits gurus started presenting a monthly benefits update for staff, the word got out. Each month, the audience (a.k.a. staffers […]

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Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) 101

Jenny Gartman, CEBS

19 Jan 201707 Jan 2019

Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are health care expense accounts for people covered under high-deductible health plans (HDHPs), designed to help them save and pay for certain health care costs tax-free, right away or anytime in the future. HSAs are intended to empower […]