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Employee Benefits Jobs

Administrator of New Business Development
for Benefit & Risk Management Services, Inc. in CA

Retirement Client Consultant
for Federated Investors, Inc. in PA

Senior Associate - Retirement
for Employee Benefit Solutions, Inc. in TX

ERISA Attorney-Documents Specialist
for ftwilliam.com; Wolters Kluwer Law and Business in IL, WI

Customer Service Associate
for Prudential in AZ

Associate Manager, Actuarial Defined Benefit Pension Valuation
for Prudential in CT

Sr Actuarial Associate, Defined Benefit Pension Valuation
for Prudential in CT

Associate Actuary, Defined Benefit Pension Valuation
for Prudential in CT

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Webcasts and Conferences

"The Duty to Collect, and What the DOL Is Doing About It" Web Seminar
Nationwide on August 31, 2011 presented by SunGard Relius


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[Official Guidance]
Text of EBSA Model Notice for Employers Regarding Health Insurance Premium Assistance Opportunities (PDF)
"If you are eligible for health coverage from your employer, but are unable to afford the premiums, some States have premium assistance programs that can help pay for coverage." (U.S. Employee Benefits Security Administration)


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[Guidance Overview]
New Guidelines for Women's Preventive Care Services
"If your group health plan is not grandfathered, your plan will need to provide first dollar coverage for contraceptives and a broad range of preventive care for women in accordance with new guidelines." (Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP)

[Guidance Overview]
Change to Medicare Part D Enrollment Period Impacts Notices of Coverage
"CMS has issued revised model forms which can be found at www.cms.gov. Click on the link for 'creditable coverage,' then 'model notice letters.' Notices must be provided by October 15, 2011." (Fisher & Phillips LLP)

CPA Firm's Offices to 'Walk' to San Francisco for Wellness Program
"The winning office will be the first to successfully 'step' 3,000 miles as tracked by pedometers—the distance to the City by the Bay—through various exercises." (Employee Benefit News; free registration required)

Video and Written Testimony of Senate Hearing: Health Reform and Health Insurance Premiums
"During a hearing [August 2, 2011] on health insurance premiums, Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member on the . . . Committee, said that the new health care law passed last year is already driving up insurance premiums." (U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions)

ML Strategies Health Care Reform Update, August 1, 2011
"Read this week's update on health care reform legislation, regulations, and initiatives." (ML Strategies, LLC)

Benefits in General; Executive Compensation

[Guidance Overview]
SEC Delay of Some Dodd-Frank Executive Compensation Rules
"The adoption dates for rules on [four] topics were moved to the January-June 2012 period. This delay means that these rules will not be in place for the 2012 proxy season." (McguireWoods LLP)

Just Exactly What Is a 'QSERP'?
"A QSERP is one of the names given to a perfectly legal strategy of shifting accrued or future benefits from a non-qualified retirement plan—where contributions are not immediately deductible, cannot accumulate tax-free, are available to creditors, and cannot be rolled over—to a qualified retirement plan—where contributions are immediately deductible, can accumulate tax-free, are not available to creditors, and can be rolled over (and that is only a partial list of the advantages)." (Michael S. Melbinger via Winston & Strawn LLP)

Central Falls, Rhode Island, Public Safety Retirees Told to Fight Pension and Health Benefit Cuts
"[A] lawyer for the national Fraternal Order of Police, said 'someone should go to jail' over [the state receiver's] reduction in pension benefits by about 50 percent to save $2.5 mil.lion this year. [The receiver] also required the retirees to pay 20 percent toward their health-insurance premiums." (The Providence Journal Co.)

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