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The BenefitsLink Newsletter This issue sponsored by EmployeeBenefitsJobs.com Would your company like to sponsor an issue? February 15 and 16, 2000 Top Stories - Retirement Plans Streaming Video Interview About the Morningstar ClearFuture Online Mutual Fund Recommendation Service On24.com [More like this] Blair Brininger, P.C. January 2000 ERISA Newsletter Blair Brininger, P.C. [More like this] Jefferson Research Announces New Service for Investment Managers and Fiduciaries: The Torpedo Alert (tm) news.excite.com [More like this] Union Pension Fund Seeks Meeting with Mattel Board of Directors news.excite.com [More like this] Clinton's FY 2001 Budget Proposal Impacts Pensions, Benefits CCH, 2/16/2000 only [More like this] CalPERS Establishes $100 Million Equity Program For Urban Real Estate Projects - Fund Will Target Northern California Communities California Public Employees Retirement System [More like this] Duty Calls the Guard, but Some Bosses Resist New York Times, free registration required [More like this] In Tribute to Your Years of Service: Something Other Than the Gold Watch New York Times, free registration required [More like this] Saving Enough? Ask a Web Site, or Better Yet, More Than One New York Times, free registration required [More like this] Extra-Credit Class: Figure Out 401(k)'s New York Times, free registration required [More like this] Tenure Gridlock: When Professors Choose Not to Retire New York Times, free registration required [More like this] Are Americans Saving Enough to Retire? Well, Yes and No New York Times, free registration required [More like this] In Japan, the Golden Years Have Lost Their Glow New York Times, free registration required [More like this] Massachusetts Governor Rejects Bill Limiting CPA Liability Boston Globe [More like this] Taking a Lump? Get All You Deserve Washington Post [More like this] PBGC Form 1 and Schedule A for 2000 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation [More like this] ASPA Issues Request for Proposal for Pension Administrators Course (PDF) ASPA [More like this] Pension & Benefits Update Tax Analysts [More like this] Savings Fitness: A Guide to Your Money and Your Financial Future (PDF) U.S. Department of Labor [More like this] Forbes Magazine Names Us One of the Web's Best Sites Forbes [More like this] GUST Update Frequently Asked Questions Corbel [More like this] Top Stories - Health and Welfare Plans Making Your Way Through the Maze of Medicare Options New York Times, free registration required [More like this] Long-Term Care: The Insurance You Really Hope You Will Never Need New York Times, free registration required [More like this] California Insurance Laws Quietly Take Effect Los Angeles Times [More like this] All MEWAs Required To File Form M-1 For 1999 Corbel [More like this] Six Steps Toward Better Claims Correspondence Claims magazine [More like this] Awesome Adjusting Revisited: A Return to Customer Service Claims magazine [More like this] Proposed new Regulation P, Privacy of Consumer Financial Information, to implement the privacy provisions in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (PDF) American Health Lawyers Association [More like this] American Medical Association Writes Congress, Outlines Essential Provisions in a Patients' Rights Conference Bill AMA [More like this] Canada Moves To Give Benefits To Gay Couples Washington Post [More like this] The Efficiency of Universal Health Care Boston Globe [More like this] Lawsuit Says UnitedHealthcare Policy a Sham insure.com [More like this] National Coalition of Patient Rights provides HHS its Comments on the Proposed Health Data Confidentiality Regulations National CPR [More like this] Health Insurance Association of America Comments to HHS on Confidentiality of Electronic Health Information HIAA [More like this] New Businesses Blunt Pain of Frustrating Insurance Claims - Niche Industry Resolves Disputes, Dispenses Advice USA Today [More like this] A Better Idea: Ford Provides Free PCs to Employees The Standard [More like this] New Recommended Links About Employee Benefits Talking With Your Parents About Medicare and Health Coverage Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation [More like this] 2000-01 Edition of the Occupational Outlook Handbook Published Bureau of Labor Standards [More like this] You Don't Have to Be Old to Sue for Age Discrimination New York Times, free registration required [More like this] The 1998/99 Executive Benefit Survey of Fortune 1000 Companies Compensation Resource Group, Inc., free registration required [More like this] Copyright 2000 BenefitsLink.com, Inc. Feel free to forward this email to friends, colleagues or clients, if no fee is paid to you and the email is forwarded in its entirety. Thanks! BenefitsLink is a trademark of BenefitsLink.com, Inc., published by Dave Baker with much help from Mary Hall and lots of friends. To subscribe (free): visit https://benefitslink.com/newsletter/ - or the person desiring to subscribe can send an email to listmanager@postmastergeneral.com, with this as the subject of the email: subscribe benefitslink We have an online archive of prior issues.

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