Analysis

Are workplaces becoming more LGBTQ friendly? Depends on who you ask.
Evolving policies about LGBT benefits create opportunities for brokers and advisors as they seek to help HR engage this increasingly important demographic.
Although it has improved, the access that same-sex spouses have to employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) is still “significantly less common than the offer of opposite sex spousal coverage.”
That’s according to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, which also finds that in 2018, 63 percent of employers offering health insurance to opposite sex spouses also offered coverage to same-sex spouses, and that the share of employees with such access has increased over time to 88 percent.
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