Benefits Manager

The unemployment rate for veterans ages 18-24 hit 13.1 percent in December 2011, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

U.S. employers stepped up their hiring in November, though they advertised fewer jobs for a second straight month. The mixed data suggest the job market has strengthened but employers remain cautious.

The state's largest and most poorly underfunded system was put on a path to be 100-percent funded in 22 years. A new series of bills helped drop unfunded liabilities by more than $5.5 billion.

Incentives can be broken down as simply as the carrot or the stick and often a well-balanced combination of both.

If unemployed workers in South Carolina can't find a job in six months, they would have to volunteer 16 hours weekly to continue getting benefits from the state under a bill up for debate Tuesday by a Senate panel.

The agency's Limited English Proficiency Program can translate important retirement information into any of 147 different languages for participants.

Aetna is thinking outside the workplace by going directly to consumers with wellness in mind.

Retirement savings habits do present a case where more action attendant to savings, variety, costs and trading could have brought better investment returns in 2011 and beyond.