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The BenefitsLink Newsletter December 15, 1999 What's New - Top Stories IRS Letter Clarifies Application of New HCE Limit RIA Pension & Benefits Week [More like this] Workers Frustrated, Irate As Pension Checks Shrink Miami Herald [More like this] Proposed DOL Class Exemption For Securities Cross-Trades By Index And Model-Driven Funds Federal Register [More like this] A Mouse Can Allocate Your Assets Forbes [More like this] Kid-Size Health Insurance: Covering Children When You're Single insure.com [More like this] IRS, DOL and HCFA Sign Memorandum of Understanding re HIPAA Implementation Federal Register [More like this] Calif. Pension Funds Explore Leaving Health Insurers news.excite.com [More like this] QCSI Announces Launch of Web Software Enabling Instant Healthcare Claims Adjudication news.excite.com [More like this] Your Holiday Bonus Is On Uncle Sam's Wish List USA Today [More like this] McCain Health-Care Plan Would Expand Coverage Boston Globe [More like this] New Hampshire Health Insurers Leave Little To Choice Boston Globe [More like this] Low-cost Financing Provided by Mass to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Boston Globe [More like this] Suit Says Harvard Pilgrim Overbilling For Drugs Boston Globe [More like this] New (to Us) Noteworthy Links Business Attitudes Toward Health Insurance Coverage of Employees and Their Dependent Children Lake Snell Perry & Associates, for the Economic And Social Research Institute [More like this] BenefitsBoards.net - Top Topics Code section 401(a)(4) and plans sponsored by Federal government agencies PBGC Variable Premiums - OK to apply the Alternate Method to the current year's Schedule B liabilities

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