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Four High Deductible Health Plan Mistakes to Avoid

InterWest Insurance Services

With more than half of all private sector employees enrolled in high-deductible health plans , it’s important that employers have in place certain protocols to ensure that they are a success. HSAs are tax-advantaged accounts that allow enrollees to save up to pay qualified medical expenses.

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What is supplemental life insurance and how can it improve your employee benefits package?

Higginbotham

What is supplemental life insurance? It’s a type of life insurance policy that’s often available through work and provides additional coverage. What is supplemental life insurance? Supplemental life insurance fills in coverage gaps and provides additional life insurance coverage.

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Four Ways to Ensure Your Group HDHP Will Fail

InterWest Insurance Services

With more than half of all private sector employees enrolled in high-deductible health plans , it’s important that employers have in place certain protocols to ensure that they are a success. HSAs are tax-advantaged accounts that allow enrollees to save up to pay qualified medical expenses.

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Study Pegs Group Benefits Return on Investment at 47%

InterWest Insurance Services

Chamber of Commerce, found that firms with 100 or more workers to whom they offer group health benefits gained from increased productivity, reduced direct medical costs (for self-insured firms), tax benefits and improved retention and recruitment. The analysis by Avalare , a wellness plan provider, and commissioned by the U.S.

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4 considerations when choosing employee benefits for the first time

WEX Inc.

Keep these factors in mind: Medical needs: Estimate your medical needs for the coming year. Do you anticipate regular doctor visits, ongoing prescriptions, or any planned medical procedures. To take advantage of an HSA, you need to participate in an HSA-eligible health plan (or high-deductible health plan).

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Exclusive: Welsh government rolls out new employee benefits framework

Employee Benefits

Launched this week and set to run until 2028, with break clauses at the end of years two and three, the managed service provision framework includes a fully managed service and individual services for employee benefit schemes, covering a range of salary sacrifice and voluntary deduction arrangements.

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Flexible Benefit Plans Give Employees More Options

InterWest Insurance Services

Employers fund these flexible benefit plans with funds that are deducted from their employees’ salaries on a pre-tax basis. Cafeteria plans are particularly good for participants who have regular expenses related to medical issues and childcare. Flexible spending account. Flexible spending accounts.