Employee benefit administrator WageWorks made the greatest gain, but only after cutting its price.
Your company pays the tab so you get the financial planning and education free as an employee benefit.
The news comes from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), a private, non-partisan, nonprofit research institute based in Washington, D.
Many companies offer a tuition reimbursement program as an employee benefit if the education has a direct impact on your current position.
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Thanks to a booming stockmarket, firms have been able to reduce their contributions to pension plans, thereby holding down employee benefit costs.
According to the latest Employee Benefit Research Institute survey, 7 in 10 workers (69%) said they will work for pay after they retire.
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Roughly 63% of all uninsured workers are either self-employed or work for firms with fewer than 100 employees, estimates the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
The percentage of workers who have saved for retirement plunged to 66% from 75% in 2009, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute survey.
An employee who earned 3% more in their 401(k) during their working career due to this employee benefit could double their 401(k) balance at retirement.
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"Individuals underestimate how long they're going to live and overestimate how much they can spend, " says Dallas Salisbury, chief executive of the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
The Fortune article also described the investigation this firm conducted regarding the investment consultant of another client, the Metropolitan Employee Benefit Board of Nashville and Davidson County.
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The Employee Benefit Research Institute says that the percentage of 401(k) assets held in employers' stock has been halved since 2000, but the numbers are still alarming.
Businesses have been paying a lot of attention lately to crafting employee engagement programs that reflect what employees care about and that can be seen as an employee benefit.
In plans that allow borrowing, about 21% of participants had outstanding loans in 2011, up from 18% in 2008, according to a December report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
With 156 million Americans currently enrolled in employer-sponsored health insurance, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a mass exodus from employer-coverage would represent a sea change in American health care.
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An increasing number of workers are seriously worried they will not have enough money to retire comfortably, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute 2011 Retirement Confidence Survey that dropped today.
Women have a lot of catching up to do when it comes to saving through individual retirement accounts, according to a new IRA database released today by the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
Meanwhile, the SPL vowed to investigate whether the way Rangers used employee benefit trust payments (EBTs) for players, which were the subject of a separate HM Revenue and Customs probe, breached its own rules.
In his statement, Sir David said he was "pleased" with the judgement of the first tier tax tribunal's judgement on Rangers, which ruled in favour of the club's use of Employee Benefit Trusts (EBTs).
In fact, the law's stiffer funding requirements for defined-benefit plans will likely push companies with underfunded plans to freeze them, says Jack VanDerhei, a Temple University professor and fellow at the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
The survey, conducted online by Harris Interactive among 2, 210 adults from May 1-3, shows that over the last five years, 40% of those who were employed full-time saw their employee benefit packages slashed or eliminated entirely.
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According to the Hay Group that specializes in compensation issues, corporate boards must assure that pay standards are fair and transparent, and that the process to assign compensation does not conflict with general employee benefit policies.
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And in a new study, the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) laid out just how unprepared many Americans are for even a healthy retirement, to say nothing of one tha includes significant acute medical problems and long-term care needs.
Compared to the expenditures of a household headed by a 65-year-old, spending falls off 19% by age 75, 34% by age 85, and 52% by age 98, finds Sudipto Banerjee, a research associate at the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
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Various types of high-deductible health plans have been around for about a decade, gradually working their way up to covering some 21 million people, or about 12 percent of the privately insured market, in 2011, according to the non-partisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI).
According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, workers would pay almost a third more for health insurance as individuals than as part of a firm of 1, 000 workers or more, tempting some to drop coverage altogether and so swell the ranks of America's 46m uninsured.
America Saves Week (americasavesweek.org), is a campaign coordinated by America Saves (americasaves.org), a program of the Consumer Federation of America and the American Savings Educational Council (choosetosave.org) a program of the Employee Benefit Research Institute, two programs focused on promoting saving, debt reduction, and wealth building.
While the individual market has been relatively small (about 19 million people, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute) compared to those with employer-based coverage (about 156 million), most honest analysts expect millions of employers to drop coverage and dump their employees into the individual market.
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Last week, the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Labor issued a report entitled, Changes Are Still Needed in the ERISA Audit Process to Increase Protections for Employee Benefit Plan Participants, which indicates that the Office is gravely concerned about the prevalence of unaudited employee benefit plans.
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Motorola said last week that it would freeze its employee pension benefit plans and stop matching 401(k) contributions.
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