Voluntary Benefits

Pre-Paid Legal Services (PPL) is now LegalShield(SM).

The real takeaway from President Barack Obama's jobs agenda? Workers probably can count on continuing to pay lower Social Security taxes. Employers may not have to pay as much, either. The long-term unemployed probably will keep drawing jobless benefits.

Consumers generally consider choice a good thing. And usually it is. But can having too many choices actually lead consumers to make a poor decisionor even no decision at all?

Given that hedge funds and hedging are so much in the news, I began to think about the ways a company can hedge its employee benefit costs.

Pass this jobs bill, models from Chile, and PPACA scores another point.

While four in five employees today believe their life insurance coverage is adequate, 45 percent of working women and 28 percent of working men with life insurance havent evaluated their needs since obtaining their first policy, potentially leaving themselves and their families financially vulnerable in the event of a premature...