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24 Reasons to Earn Your CEBS in 2024

Christine Vazquez, CEBS

19 Dec 202319 Dec 2023

Benefits professionals share how the CEBS designation has advanced their careers

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Target Benefit Plans: An Update on Where They Stand

Amanda Wilke, CEBS

14 Dec 2023

Although target benefit pension plans have been in a state of unknown for a while, they are now closer to having a permanent funding model with several new proposals currently under consideration. In 2015, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions […]

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Employer Considerations to Support Menopause in the Workplace

Jenny Gartman, CEBS

12 Dec 202310 Jan 2024

Destigmatizing menopause has been a hot topic in 2023 and is a trend that will continue in the years ahead. Within recent years, it’s involved increasing awareness in the workplace about the menopause transition, the symptoms and the effects those symptoms can […]

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Can Emergency Withdrawals Replace Emergency Savings?

Jonas Leyrer, CEBS

07 Dec 202307 Dec 2023

One of the first pieces of advice every personal finance guru will give you is “build up your emergency savings.” The advice has become as ubiquitous as it is effective. An emergency savings account (usually set at 3-6 months of a person’s […]

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Three Ways to Use AI in Employee Benefits

Kathy Bergstrom, CEBS

05 Dec 202325 Jan 2024

It’s open enrollment time, and your plan participants have questions about which health plan they should choose or whether a new voluntary benefit might be right for them. Your benefits staff is stretched thin trying to answer questions. What if you had […]

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Legal & Legislative Reporter: Court Allows a Life Insurance Conversion Dispute to Move Forward

Guest Contributor

30 Nov 202330 Nov 2023

Every month, the International Foundation releases the Legal and Legislative Reporter, a compilation of new employee benefits-related case summaries. Below is a summary we thought you’d be interested in. Content provided by Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. The U.S. District Court for the […]

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The Epidemic of Loneliness: How Organizations Can Help

Cara McMullin

28 Nov 202304 Dec 2023

Loneliness is a growing public health crisis with profound effects on health and life expectancy, which also impacts the workplace. In May 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation,” detailing the health crisis’ […]

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Magazine Extra: Employee Benefits Join the Genomic Revolution Toward Precision Medicine

Guest Contributor

21 Nov 202329 Jan 2024

Employers and plan sponsors that want to offer genomic testing access and education to employees and their dependents have options to do so through workplace benefits. What kinds of tests are available, and what are the pros and cons?

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From Debt to Zen: Transforming Financial Stress to Financial Serenity

Tim Hennessy

20 Nov 202320 Nov 2023

As 2023 comes to an end, many Americans are struggling to achieve the goal of living without financial liabilities as credit card debt in the U.S. hit a new record high, surpassing $1 trillion, according to the New York Federal Reserve Bank. […]

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Recognizing Warning Signs of Employee Fraud Through Prevention, Detection and Response

Anne Newhouse, CEBS

15 Nov 202315 Nov 2023

Although most employees have no intention of stealing from their employers, fraud happens regularly to employers in every country, regardless of the size of the company or the industry. In the webcast, Employee Fraud—Prevention, Detection and Response, recorded on October 10, 2023, […]