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- 8/27: The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) has
published on the Web many of its excellent Fact Sheets. EBRI plans to publish one Fact Sheet each month.
This month's issue is Unemployment Insurance.
Previously released Fact Sheets include:
- Characteristics of Individuals with Employment-Based Health Insurance, 1987-1995, July 1997
- Private Pension Plans, Participation, and Assets, June 1997
- The Basics of Social Security, May 1997
- The Basics of Medicare, May 1997
- Employer-Provided Worker Training, April 1997
- National Health Care Expenditures, 1995, March 1997
- Income of the Elderly, 1995, February 1997
- State and Local Governments and Medium and Large Private Establishments, November 1996
- Asset Management and Performance of the U.S. Pension System, October 1996
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, September 1996
- Benefit Provisions of H.R. 3448: Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996, September 1996
- Leave of Absence Benefits, August 1996
- State Health Expenditures: 1993, June 1996
- Mental Health/Substance Abuse Benefits, May 1996
- Employer Spending for Employee Benefit Programs, April 1996
- Tax Reform Proposals: What They Mean for Employee Benefits March 1996
- Tax Reform and Employee Benefits: Possible Responses to Tax Reform, March 1996
- Income of the Elderly, January 1996
- 8/27: Stocking
Up: Employees Become Owners While the Company Raises Cash, an article from Success Magazine, July/August 1997
issue.
- 8/25: More answers in the popular
Question and Answer column, Q&A for
Plan Defects: Correction/VCR/CAP, written by attorneys Fred Reish
and Bruce Ashton of Reish & Luftman,
a Professional Corporation.
A reader asks: "I thought that, if a 401(k) plan
failed the ADP test, it only disqualified the CODA and not the entire
plan. Since APRSC, SVP and VCR are available only to correct plan
disqualification defects, how can these remedial programs be used for
an ADP failure?"
Answer is here.
- 8/25: More questions and answers in the the HIPAA Q&A Column! View questions submitted by BenefitsLink readers about the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and the answers to those questions provided by
attorneys John R.
Hickman and Thomas P. McCormick, who are the authors of HIPAA Compliance For Group Health
Plans, published by the Employee Benefits Institute of America
(EBIA).
QUESTION 2. Are dental plans exempt from HIPAA? I've heard that self-funded
dental plans are not exempt, and that there might be some other dental plans
that are not exempt.
Answer is here.
- 8/25: Link to The Variable Annuity:
R.I.P., the title of the 8/17/97 edition of an online column by
Scott Burns, a writer for the Dallas Morning News.
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