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Momentum from passage of SECURE 2.0 could "accelerate" efforts to enroll millions more of employees, since fewer than 50% of small businesses with less than 50 employees currently sponsor a retirement plan.

Plan sponsors, their members, and benefits advisors were given new resources and options for 2023 benefits planning with Congress's passage of the omnibus spending bill in late December.

The theory is that the agencies cannot be as productive out of the office as in it, however, the bill already faces difficulties and a new one has just surfaced: the start of union contracts that are including promises of flexible work.

This income-driven repayment plan for student loans could cut some borrowers' payments in half or erase all remaining debt after 10 years for those who took out $12,000 or less.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois discriminated against transgender individuals by denying coverage for medically necessary gender-affirming care in its administration of employer-provided ERISA health plans.

Even more employers pay for bariatric surgery and offer other advanced therapies and weight management programs.