How to Create an Employee Benefits Communication Strategy for Short Attention Spans
An effective employee benefits communication strategy strikes the right balance between providing ample information and keeping employees engaged. ...
Communicating Benefits to Employees…Without Spamming Their Inboxes
Communicating benefits to employees requires staying in touch with your workers—frequently. That’s because, as the language-learning app Lingu...
Top Risks Associated with using ACA Monthly Measurement Period instead of the ACA Look Back Measurement Period to Stay Compliant
Many of our customers ask what are the pro’s and con’s around Monthly Measurement Periods versus Lookback Measurement Periods. ACA Monthly Measurem...
Is Software Enough for ACA Reporting and Compliance?
Don’t get us wrong, we believe that ACA reporting software is important. Really important. Our solution is built on the best. But is it enough? We’...
Twelve Terms Every Health Benefits Professional Should Know
Maybe you’re new to the Employee Health Benefits world, or maybe you’re a long-time HR professional with general knowledge, but could use a few tra...
Understanding your HSA Qualified Expenses
Your Health Savings Account, or HSA, is an incredible benefit and resource for you to use, and is quite simple to utilize. First, however, you need...
A Message to CFO’s – the ACA isn’t just an HR Problem
I recently returned from an industry conference for Financial Leadership, GFOA http://gfoa.org/conference), and I was surprised to hear that most ...
Benefits Communications Path to Change—Webinar Q&A
I really enjoyed facilitating our May webinars with EBN and SHRM and introducing our attendees to the Benefits Communications Path to Change. We ta...
A Common ACA Compliance Challenge—SSN Mismatch Errors
SSN Mismatch Errors Those who are in any way familiar with ACA forms 1095-C and 1094-C electronic submissions to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)...
ACA Penalties Keep Rolling In—The IRS Means Business
Since November 2016 there have been two intensive efforts to repeal the ACA resulting in exactly zero changes to the ACA’s Employer Mandate, as dis...