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- 11/13: Announcing the new instant-access sign-up form
for the BenefitsLink email directory! (Also called the White Pages.)
This replaces the "When the heck are you going to add my name to the White Pages,
Dave?" method of manually updating the directory <grin>.
- 11/12: Welcome to new sponsor Clearview Consulting, makers of
the new Internet Retirement Assessor, the first product
offered to the Benefits market that is completely accessible from the
Internet. The I.R.A. gives Benefit Plan Providers and Plan Sponsors
the ability to empower Plan Participants with a set of tools for retirement
analysis and education! Take a look.
- 11/12: Welcome to new sponsor Commercial Insurance Managers, Inc.
of Columbia MD! Commercial Insurance Mangers serves the
insurance needs of the business community in the Mid-Atlantic area through quality insurers in
every business insurance product, including property, crime, general
liability, professional liability, workers compensation, automobile,
umbrella, directors' & officers' legal liability as well as group medical,
life, weekly income and long term disability coverages.
- 11/11: New on the Web: the Coalition for Pension Security,
a new grassroots group determined to make pension security a national issue. Check 'em
out!
- 11/11: The U.S. Department of Labor has issued a "pension and welfare
advisory" on retiree health benefits. The advisory, entitled Can the Retiree
Health Benefits Provided By Your Employer Be Cut?, gives retirees and current
employees some tips for checking the documents that determine their rights to health
care coverage during retirement.
- 11/11: The National Center for Employee Ownership
(NCEO) has just completed a major project, the Employee Ownership Q&A Disk. It
gives Windows users point-and-click access to 500 questions and answers on all aspects
of employee ownership in a fully searchable hypertext format. Presented in the form of
a Windows Help file, it includes practically every question the NCEO has ever been
asked on employee ownership. Most of the questions concern employee stock ownership
plans (ESOPs). A downloadable demo
is available.
- 11/11: The IRS voluntary correction program known as the "Standardized
VCR Program", or SVP, is limited to seven types of operational plan defects. SVP
mandates specified forms of correction for these seven defects, including
failure to provide minimum top-heavy benefits to non-key
employees. If VCR is used instead of SVP, can such a defect be corrected
without using the type of correction mandated under SVP? Find out the answer in the Q&A for Plan Defects: Correction/VCR/CAP
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