Voluntary Benefits

As a small group broker, are you ready to meet the demand and discuss voluntary benefits with your clients?

Employers may think theyre doing well by their employees with health and well-being strategies they bring into the workplace, but employees? The majority say those initiatives dont meet their needs.

A survey by the American Benefits Council, finds that 27 percent of employees consider tax deferral on contributions to employer-sponsored retirement savings as the most important tax benefit to them over the next 10 years, with health insurance coming in a close second.

For the benefits and HR industry, more reliance on technology, equals more reliance on brokers to help employers make their way in an ever more complex world.

Moms and dads particularly like working at the companies that made the list of Great Place to Work and Fortunes 2017 Best Workplaces for Parents companies with excellent health care and compensation packages, and killer perks and programs, including those particularly desired by parents, such as paid family leave...

The flexibility of HSAs makes them appealing for a wide range of users, but that same flexibility can make explaining these accounts a challenge. No two people have identical health benefit needs, and each employee will use an HSA differently.

U.S. patents on key components for some important HIV therapies are poised to expire starting in December and one foreign manufacturer is gearing up to cash in.

Let's consider why new voluntary products come into the benefits marketplace, how they emerge and what might be around the corner.