Disability/LifeThere's almost universal agreement among employers and employees that one's income is a person's most important asset - and that a sound financial-planning strategy must be in place to protect those earnings.
Feeling blue about skyrocketing costs coming from short-term disability, lengthy absences, or lost productivity? It may be the other way around for your employees.
Who, at one time or another, hasnt run out during the workday to get coffee for themselves and/or coworkers? I know I have. My needs are few, but one of them is most certainly caffeine.
HR/benefits professionals hear it all the time: For a policy or procedure to work, it must have strong backing from upper management. The same can be said for disability management policies and procedures.
When most of us sit down to list our financial planning priorities, retirement, college tuition and life insurance usually are at the top.
Mike Weintraub, board member of the LIFE Foundation and president of Contemporary Pensions and Insurance Services Inc., talks to Managing Editor Leah Carlson Shepherd on ebn.podhoster.com about the affects of the recession on the life insurance industry.
Employees who buy long-term care insurance under a group plan at the workplace are younger than those who buy LTC coverage on the individual market, reports the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance.