Benefits Manager

Unemployment rates fell in about three-quarters of large U.S. cities in September, a sign that the nation's modest job gains that month occurred across most of the country.

Stock indexes rose Wednesday after a steep two-day drop as international leaders scrambled to save a week-old plan to prevent a financial crisis in Europe. Strong corporate earnings and a bump up in hiring by private companies also helped turn markets around.

Most of the companies that either suspended or reduced their 401(k) matches during the economic downturn have reinstated them, business consultant Towers Watson said in a study released Wednesday.

Social Security not only shouldn't be cut as part of the United States debt reduction measures, but, according to Merton Bernstein, an expert on Social Security and the Walter D. Coles Professor Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, it wouldnt take much to ensure Social Securitys viability 75 years...

Annual premiums for employer-sponsored family health coverage increase once again in 2011

The world is simply getting biggerin a bad and costly way.

Our seventh annual competition features a few surprises, a lot of stalwarts and more broker votes than ever before.

The amount of money health plans dispensed to pay for medical and hospital benefits finally slowed.