Voluntary Benefits

Sixty-three percent of HR professionals say the recession negatively affected their employee benefit offerings "to some extent" within the past year, according to a new report from the Society for Human Resource Management.

More than 60 percent of employers are evaluating changes to the long-term medical benefits for retirees in the next 1-2 years.

For brokers, this will mean changing the individual benefits you include in the comprehensive benefits package you offer your clients.

Doctors, insurers and consumers are "ready and willing" to adopt value-based insurance designs, which use information and financial incentives to guide consumers' choices, a recent survey found.

Over $8 billion dollars in long-term disability insurance claim payments was paid to disabled workers in 2009, a 2.9 percent increase from 2008, a recent survey found.

Employees shared what they thought were the top advantages of voluntary products.

A recent survey finds more employers are asking workers to bear a greater share of the cost for their employer-sponsored benefits to help mitigate the effects of a down economy.

80 percent of brokers say voluntary benefits are "very important" to the packages they offer employers; 17 percent said they were "somewhat important."