National Multi-employer Worker Benefit Plan Software Needed

[Guest Terri Jackson]

Worker Benefit Plans (WBP) is a nationwide multi-employer administration company that serves 6,000 separate employers (in all 50 states) who employ a total of 30,000 employees. There are thousands of payroll systems used by these separately incorporated ¡§franchised¡¨ or ¡§chartered¡¨ employers. WBP invoices the costs for benefit plans (roughly $250 million annually) to these employers.

Membership eligibility is done on a worker by worker, individual by individual basis, including dependents, etc. We provide several plans including health, disability, accident, and a defined benefit retirement plan. We do our own accounting, systems and investment management. We utilize roughly 50 different vendors.

We are searching for a new software system that is web-based and will eventually allow individual cafeteria style enrollment on an annual basis for 30,000 employees (or at least cafeteria style enrollment for 6,000 employers). If you are aware of a comprehensive, single system, or sets of systems that accomplish this, please let me know (see below address).

Also, if you are another national, multi-employer system, please advise. Your help to the Lutheran Church would be most helpful. Many thanks for any help you can provide the church in this Easter season. May God bless you.

Sincerely in His service,

Dan Leeman, JD CEBS

President and CEO

The Lutheran Church„oMissouri Synod

Worker Benefit Plans

1333 S. Kirkwood Road

St. Louis, MO 63122

(314) 996-1700 ¡V Direct Line

Toll Free #: 1-888-927-7526

Email: Dan.Leeman@wbp.org