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“With 50% of employees not confident they can turn their retirement savings into a consistent stream of income for the rest of their lives, many organizations are rethinking pension strategies and how best to support their workforce,” said Scott Jarboe, Mercer’s U.S. defined benefit segment leader.

AHIP CEO Mike Tuffin — who helps speak for Aetna, Cigna and the Blues — said the current One Big Beautiful Act package would hurt all patients in rural communities.

At the same time that the bill proposes sweeping cuts to Medicaid spending as well as changes to the Affordable Care Act, overall favorability of both programs reach all-time highs.

In this episode of the Beyond Benefits podcast, we dig deep into a number of topics with our newly crowned BenefitsPRO Advisor of the Year, Chris Hamilton.

Since the financial advisor’s resignation last month, 20 clients, representing $35 million in assets, have transferred or are in the process of transferring their accounts to Morgan Stanley, according to JPMorgan.

That’s one year sooner than previously forecast, according to the just-released Social Security Administration’s annual Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports, which urge lawmakers to “quickly enact legislation to make the necessary adjustments.”

Providers could replace some of the projected government plan revenue losses by increasing commercial plan revenue.

“Given that nearly a third of respondents have detected errors in their paychecks at some point, their stress is not unfounded,” according to a new report from Deel.