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Demand for retirement planning assistance grew compared to last year, with employees choosing goals-based retirement investment planning and access to retirement planning tools as the most beneficial, says Morgan Stanley.

Effective weight-loss programs have proven hard to implement at large scale, and many health-care systems are not prepared to intervene in diabetes early, according to researchers at medical journal Lancet.

With SECURE 2.0's optional provisions, employers have new tools to help workers pay off student loans and save for emergencies, while putting money into retirement savings, according to a new T. Rowe Price survey.

An increasing number of businesses will be starting retirement plans in the wake of the SECURE 2.0 - and tax credits will help small business employers offer them, according to new research.

When workers do turn up at the office, it is usually not on a Monday or Friday, when office visits fall by around 47% — or about half what they were in 2019, according to a new survey.

Health plan sponsors were more liberal in offering a broader range of choices to plan members than were employers, however, sponsors were more likely to shift costs to members than were employers, says a new report.

Credit card debt is the worst problem for employees—and a significantly bigger problem for workers than student loan debt or medical debt, new research showed.

Employer interest in offering behavioral health solutions is higher today than pre-pandemic, but the integration of behavioral health services with the primary care services employees have available to them has yet to fall into place.