Talking Benefits

It's a new year and we're serving up fresh benefits updates. Plus, some exciting news of our own!

It's beginning to look a lot like . . . tax reform! It's the busy holiday season for everyone, including lawmakers. Listen in as we unwrap the tax reform bills, tear into the latest ACA developments and share a few important updates on multiemployer retirement plans.

News, news and MORE NEWS! The fall months have brought an exhausting amount of ACA news as well as tax reform bills from the House and the Senate, so we’ve got you covered!

Hold the phone! Catch up on the past four weeks of benefits conversation. We dial it all in under 30 minutes!

The struggles of those in the paths of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma are immense, and many may need help that falls outside the scope of the benefit plan description. How can you prepare to step up when needed? In this month’s episode, we discuss how employers and plan sponsors deal with disasters.

Forget the cats and dogs – this month it’s been raining new paid family leave laws, fiduciary rule oral arguments, health care reform changes and MPRA approvals. Hold onto your hats!

Summertime - typically a little quieter at work as vacations commence and a lot quieter in Washington, D.C. Not so much this summer. Chill out because this episode is packed as full as a station wagon ready for a family road trip!

Is the latest employee benefits news a light read or a page turner? We're going with the latter. This one has all the makings of a good novel... suspense, conflict, interesting characters, unexpected plot twists, and even a few cliffhangers!

May the Fourth be with you! We celebrate Julie's favorite "holiday" by going to a galaxy far, far away. Impossible to see, the future is. But Julie, Kelli and Justin provide insights on what the future might bring as they discuss the latest developments in the American Health Care Act, the insurance industry and exchanges and cost-sharing subsidies and what tax reform might mean for your 401(K). Plus, we rally the Foundation staff to put a benefits spin on our favorite films!

Baseball season is in full swing . . . and the benefits industry is being thrown curveballs left and right!

In this episode, we're giving a play-by-play on all the action:

• American Health Care Act—What went wrong, what next?

• State-sponsored Retirement Programs—How they work, lineup of states offering

• Opioids—what employers can do to fight the epidemic