Benefits

With Millennials wanting more freedom and older workers wanting to stay in the workforce in some way, how will this impact employee benefits?

Promising new strategies mine technology—and entertainment—to promote financial security.

Employers are struggling with how to provide a valuable health care benefit in a cost-effective way, while employees, underprepared for retirement, view the projected health care costs as...

Whether it is to fill in the retirement savings gap or part of an overall financial strategy, equity compensation plans are attractive to employees.

Only 29% of health benefit plan sponsors offer a price comparison tool, a survey finds.

Washington State will open its plan on January 1, 2017.

A survey suggests a key part of the solution is senior leadership support.

52% of employers do not allow spousal coverage if a spouse has health insurance access through their own employer, up from 31% in 2014, a survey finds.

A survey also found employees that use private exchanges value their employers’ benefits more.

"Employers have seen certain ACA provisions have a positive impact on their workforce," says Julie Stich, CEBS, research director at the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans.

While fewer private-sector employers are offering retiree health benefits, nearly all states provide workers access to certain retiree health care coverage.

Small businesses are limited on offering employees health benefits, but they can take action to change that, says Vanessa M. Isaacson with Zane Benefits.

The drop in the number of employers offering health benefits to retirees means employees will need to save more to cover health costs in retirement.

Few midsize employers are using HDHPs, Benefitfocus finds, and this could be at the expense of employee wellbeing and cost control, it suggests.

They want to implement changes that achieve better health outcomes and improve the patient experience.

“An ‘age wave’ is coming that could either make or break America,” says Ken Dychtwald, CEO of Age Wave, and he wonders why presidential candidates are not addressing...

Individual education to employees is a better way for health benefits enrollment.

“Under play or pay, employers have had to modify their plans, track worker hours, manage eligibility and report coverage to prove they are doing something they have been...

Since passage of the ACA, there has been a reduction in health plan designs insurance carriers are selling, says Jim O’Connor with CBIZ.

A TIAA executive says, without more aggressive plan designs, state-run plans will struggle.