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Changing Your Benefits Plan? Consider the Soft Costs

Total Employee Benefits

A solid benefits broker can help you navigate this transition smoothly by providing expert advice on managing soft costs and making thoughtful decisions when selecting a new benefits provider. A good benefits broker will perform disruption analysis for you and help guide employees through changes.

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How Health Care Reform Helps People and Small Businesses Pay for Coverage

Insperity

The size of the tax credit is based generally on geographic area and the premium for the second-lowest cost silver plan in the health insurance marketplace. (A A silver plan covers, on average, 70 percent of the cost of essential health benefits provided under the plan.). Additional cost-sharing assistance.