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Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: Potential Impact on Employee Benefits

Lois Gleason, CEBS

09 Nov 201710 Nov 2017

Employee benefits professionals scoured the House Republicans’ proposed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act with some trepidation after its release on November 2, 2017. While many were relieved to find no changes in this draft to the tax treatment of employer-sponsored health care […]

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Seven Sleep Rules for Overall Wellness

Kathy Bergstrom, CEBS

06 Nov 201709 Aug 2018

Most of us across North America enjoyed an extra hour of sleep this past weekend—Sadly for many, this may be a rare occasion of getting the optimal amount of sleep. Many people wear their ability to function on small amounts of sleep […]

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Telecommuting: Who Offers What and Why?

Anne Patterson

03 Nov 201703 Nov 2017

Solving tight parking lot situation, promoting work-life balance, decreasing carbon footprints . . . Organizations have many reasons for offering telecommuting, finds a new survey report from the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans. Flexible Work Arrangements: 2017 Survey Results revealed that […]

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When Wellness Programs Get Scary

Guest Contributor

31 Oct 201731 Oct 2017

You wouldn’t think running wellness programs would be all that scary for employers, but Macy’s Inc., along with its subsidiaries Anthem and Cigna, are likely screaming in horror at a lawsuit filed against them by the Department of Labor (DOL) for management […]

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Give Workplace Flu Prevention a Shot

Teri Dougherty, CEBS

26 Oct 201726 Oct 2017

When most people think of Thanksgiving Day, they visualize turkey, football and family; I think of flu shots! For years before I was able to receive my flu shot at work, I relied on my father-in-law, “Doc,” for my shot. Doc convinced […]

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Reacquired: Pension Plan Considerations for Returning Retirees

Robbie Hartman, CEBS

24 Oct 2017

“I’ll be back.” More and more retirees are uttering the line Arnold Schwarzenegger made famous and deciding to return to work. For pension plan administrators, this plot twist can create very different visions of the future. Some will picture the organizational benefits […]

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HRAs, AHPs, and STLDIs: What the Executive Order Means for Benefit Plans

Lois Gleason, CEBS

20 Oct 2017

President Trump issued Executive Order 13813 on October 12, 2017, directing the Secretaries of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services (the Secretaries) to consider proposing regulations or revising guidance on three health care issues: health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), short-term limited duration […]

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Employee Benefit To-Dos, After I Do: Post-Wedding Checklist

Justin Held, CEBS

18 Oct 2017

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something . . . that I know we’re going to forget! Checklists upon checklists accompany the big day, and I can relate. So can my colleague, Anne Patterson, here at the International Foundation—We both got hitched […]

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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 […]