Benefits Manager

"After spending a significant amount of time reacting to market conditions, the faltering economy, and grappling with new legislation and regulations, plan sponsors are returning their focus to improving their DC plans."

Long-term caring impacts workers

of the 14.8 percent of companies that suspended matching contributions in the last three years in the last three years, 39.3 percent have restored them and 37.8 percent are planning to restore them within the next six months.

The IRS recently released final guidance for small employers eligible to claim the new small business health care tax credit for the 2010 tax year.

Retirees still require a large savings to cover out-of-pocket health expenses in retirement, despite the reduced retirement health costs the new health reform law brings, according to a nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute report.

Based on a new Profit Sharing/401k Council of America survey, 403(b) plan sponsors took significant steps toward managing their plans for the last three years, even in this down economy and new regulations.

Based on type of care and geographic location, long-term care costs greatly differ nationwide, according to Northwestern Mutual's 2010 Cost of Long-Term Care study.

Employee defined contribution saving and investing behaviors by generation.