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February 28, 2002 - 6,505 subscribers
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U.S. Lawmakers Say Prospects Bleak for Aid to Uninsured This Year
Excerpt: "[T]he leading prospect for help-- a White House tax credit plan that President Bush says could extend coverage to 6 million people-- will probably not get the approval of a divided Congress in an election year, a Republican and a Democratic House member said." (Reuters Health via Lycos)
Strategies for Easing Elder-Care Concerns
Excerpt: "Time-pressed working care-givers can easily get lost in the thicket that is our nation's long-term care system, spending weeks sorting out their loved ones' housing, financing and medical options. Millions of corporate employees get help through employers' work-life information-and-referral services." (CareerJournal.com)
MEWA Mindset: Fraught With Wishful-Thinking Errors
Excerpt: "This is not propaganda against the concept of multiple employer plans. This is a reality check on some over-active wishful-thinking imaginations. No issue generates as much off-the-wall wishful-thinking and blindness as self-funded multiple-employer plans.... I am speaking only about self-funded plans. Fully-insured multiple employer plans are already regulated by states via the insurance company." (Fred Hunt, President of Society of Professional Benefit Administrators)
Sales of Long Term Care Insurance Triple Over Decade
Excerpt: "The number of Americans who have purchased long term care insurance has more than tripled over a decade, from 1.9 million in 1990 to 6.8 million in 1999, according to a Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA) survey." (insure.com)
AFL-CIO to Fight for ex-Enron workers' Severance Pay
Excerpt: "Former Enron worker Debra Johnson said her employee manual stipulated that laid off employees should receive up to $30,000 in severance pay but that she had received nothing to date." (Reuters via Yahoo! Finance)
Newly Posted or Renewed Job Openings -
| Senior Pension Administrator | for Snyder Cohn Collyer Hamilton & Associates in MD |
| Employee Benefits Paralegal / Administrator | for Iris Bashi Associates, LLC in NJ |
Newly Posted Press Releases
| vSimplify Provides Payroll and Carrier Connectivity (vSimplify) |
| 457 Plan Services Now Updated for EGTRRA (SunGard Corbel) |
| PENSION RIGHTS CENTER PROPOSES PRINCIPLES TO GUIDE SAVER SUMMIT (Pension Rights Center) |
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