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A round-up of the weeks employee benefits news, reports and controversy from around the web

Group accident coverage and an enhanced group critical illness product available to employers, employees.

Assurant Employee Benefits will work with employers to recruit the dentists employees want.

The House took up a stringent GOP budget plan Wednesday that blends big cuts to safety-net programs for the poor with a plan to dramatically overhaul Medicare, kicking off a politically-charged, election-year debate over trillion-dollar deficits and what to do about them.

Vermont's unemployment rate has dropped below 5 percent for the first time in nearly three and a half years.

Vice President Joe Biden is painting likely Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney as a foe of U.S. manufacturing jobs and in favor of sending jobs overseas.