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How longevity will impact benefits

Perhaps you saw the Time magazine cover, featuring a cherubic baby and the caption, This baby could live to be 142 years oldDispatches from the frontier of longevity.

By Marty Traynor | Updated on April 01, 2015

Perhaps you saw the Time magazine cover, featuring a cherubic baby and the caption, “This baby could live to be 142 years old—Dispatches from the frontier of longevity.” The articles describe several of the advances being made in extending the human life span well beyond the three score and 10 cited in Psalm 90.

The article got me thinking about the potential impacts of extended life spans on benefits. In today’s world, we’ve begun to identify life cycle needs of employees and their families. We in the voluntary business have been doing this in enrollment meetings for many years.

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