A failed system implementation hurt efforts to get brokers interested in Aflac's dental plans last quarter, and that hurt sales of other products, an executive said.
Senator Bill Cassidy, along with 26 colleagues, is calling for the “immediate implementation” of the new Social Security law, after SSA announced payments to public workers could take “more than 1 year.”
The digital roundtrip of benefits offers can revolutionize the industry by streamlining the benefits lifecycle through comprehensive digital integration.
Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, who co-sponsored the new federal law, are calling on the Trump administration to expedite its implementation, following the SSA’s announcement that it could take “more than 1 year” to make payments to public service retirees.
A survey found they think full implementation of new taxes on medical supplies coming in from Canada, China and Mexico could increase hospital costs more than 15%.
In early January, President Biden signed the new law, which will boost Social Security retirement payments to police and firefighters, but now payments (though retroactive) will be delayed.