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What is a 401(k) Plan and How Does it Work?

HR Digest

It allows employees to save a portion of their pre-tax income for retirement. Here’s how it works: When an employee enrolls in a 401(k) plan, they choose a percentage of their salary to contribute to the plan, up to a certain limit set by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). How does 401(k) work?

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How to Coax Disengaged Employees to Sign Up for Health Coverage

InterWest Insurance Services

One of the most difficult aspects of annual open enrollment is reaching workers who are disengaged from the process and never bother signing up for your group health plan and other benefits they could take advantage of. Also consider that one in three employees are uncertain about their ability to cover future health care expenses.

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Look Before You Leap: Payroll-Ben Admin Tech API Considerations

HR Professionals Magazine

However, elements such as “Hourly vs Salary” or “Effective date of compensation change” may only flow from the payroll platform to the ben admin platform. This means if you change an employee from hourly to salary in the ben admin platform, the payroll system would not be updated.

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Executive benefit reimbursement plans

Higginbotham

Employees may face uncovered costs in numerous ways: They have to pay a share of the premium for insurance. They have to pay a deductible. This means that employees are not allowed to contribute, and these accounts cannot be funded via employee salary reductions under a cafeteria plan. Manage enrollment.

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Compensation Plan Template Samples For Workers

HR Digest

A compensation plan template is used by the organizations to reveal the salaries, perks, benefits, bonuses and other associated settlement that will be offered to the employee. The benefits will be equitably offered to all the employees.

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Spread the Word About Additional HSA Contributions

InterWest Insurance Services

HSAs allow your employees to put away funds to pay for future medical expenses. Usually, these accounts are funded with pre-tax deductions from your employees’ paychecks, but if they didn’t max out their contributions last year, they still can do so up until the tax-filing deadline.

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Compliance checklist for HR professionals for year-end and beyond

PeopleStrategy

Assessing open enrollment and employees’ overall involvement in benefit offerings should be a big part of any year-end HR checklist. Obviously you and the providers you select for your benefit offerings need to know how many employees enroll in each plan.