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Employers: Help Your Employees Avoid HSA Challenges

Corporate Synergies

Health savings accounts (HSAs) continue to increase in popularity, but not without issues for both employees and employers. 1 That number is projected to keep growing as more employers offer high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) with HSAs. Problems for Employers. billion to $43.5 Background. Problems for Employees.

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Proposed 2015 DOL Overtime Rule Change: What #HR Needs to Know

HR Bartender

This means that only certain deductions are permitted from the employee’s pay for time not worked and no deductions are permitted based on the quality or quantity of work; and. On the other hand, the proposed automatic adjustments may be too much for some employers too afford. The DOL proposed changes are to #1.

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Help Employees Understand the HSA Value Proposition

Corporate Synergies

High deductible health plans (HDHPs) are on the rise as a growing number of employers turn to consumer-directed health plans to try to curb costs—the portion of employees enrolled in HDHPs rose from 26.3% HSAs were introduced in 2004, but have seen steep growth—from 3.2 Health savings accounts can be a good deal for employees.

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Trial Work Periods and Extended Periods of Eligibility

Attorney Charlie Hall

The Program Operations Manual System (POMS) defines services as “any activity in employment or self-employment that is performed or is normally performed for pay or profit.” [3]. TWP in employment. Service months are calculated differently in employment and self-employment service periods. TWP in SELF-EMPLOYMEnT.

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How prepared are workers’ compensation systems for COVID-19?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

There could, of course, be only one answer to these inquiries, that the influenza, though a great misfortune, could not by any stretch of imagination be considered as an accident arising out of employment. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2004. In 2004, the avian in? Premiums and deductibles may be high.

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Expert Q&A: Understanding the DOL’s Overtime Rules

HR Digest

This threshold has been raised from the previous limit of $455 per week of 40 hours, which was set in 2004. The rule allows employers to use non-discretionary bonuses and incentive payments to satisfy up to 10 per cent of the standard salary level. Most employers will be paying overtime to some of their workforces.

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How HSAs can transform retirement planning and your common questions

WEX Inc.

What employers are saying about employee finances and retirement? 65 percent of employees participate in their employers’ retirement plan. 80 percent of employers say that employee financial stress is reducing workplace performance, at an estimated cost of half a trillion dollars. Will HSAs ever fall under ERISA jurisdiction?