Benefits Magazine
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New! Benefits Magazine is a monthly magazine that addresses benefit issues affecting multiemployer, single employer and public employee plan representatives. Health care, retirement and other related trends are addressed. Redesigned to capture more cases studies and profiles of those shaping the industry, it also includes Legal & Legislative Reporter. The Benefits Magazine replaces the previously published Benefits & Compensation Digest. It is available free to members of the International Foundation and also by subscription. |
All links below are to members-only content. 
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Articles include: - Institutional Investment Can Help Rebuild U.S. Infrastructure
- SBC Compliance Issues for Multiemployer Plans
- Gathering and Using Data for Value-Based Health Care Initiatives: How Data Can and Should Define Strategies
- GASB’s Proposed Changes to Pension Accounting Standards for Public Sector Employers
- Are You Overpaying Your Pharmacy Invoice Bill?
- Peer to Peer: Challenges for Trustees
- Legal & Legislative Reporter
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Articles include: - E-Communications From the Benefit Fund Office
- Engaging Employees in Their Benefits Through Games and Fun
- Living on Borrowed Time: Trustee Transition and GenerationalSuccessorship
- Gathering and Using Data for Value-Based Health Care Initiatives: Data Mining Is Key to Benefit Design, Evaluation
- Contracting Tips for ERISA Plans
- Peer to Peer: Weathering the Volatile Economy in a Health and Welfare Plan
- Legal & Legislative Reporter
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Articles include: - Target-Date Funds: Not as Simple as “Set It and Forget It”
- The Professional Trustee and the Multiemployer Plan
- Gathering and Using Data for Value-Based Health Care Initiatives:
Characteristics of Medical Providers - Improving Retirement Plan Success
- Behind the Scenes: Corporate Bankruptcy and Termination of a Retirement Plan
- Peer to Peer: Weathering the Volatile Economy in a Pension Plan
- Legal & Legislative Reporter
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Articles include: - Benefit Plan Risk: A Global Perspective
- Incorporating Best Practices Into Your 403(b) Plan
- Gathering and Using Data for Value-Based Health Care Initiatives—Characteristics of Employers and Funds
- Easing the Burden of Chronic Pain in the Workplace: The Role of Human Resources
- Effective Arbitration of ERISA Claims Disputes
- Legal & Legislative Reporter
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Articles include: - Health Exchanges and Multiemployer Plans—Can They Exist in Harmony?
- Overcoming Employee Objections to HSAs
- Unlocking the Secrets of Health Plan Utilization
- Effective Incentive Design
- Best Practices in Fiduciary Risk Mitigation
- Legal & Legislative Reporter
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Articles include: - How Conflicting Same-Sex Union Laws Are Impacting Employee Benefits
- PPACA’s Summary of Benefits and Coverage Requirement
- Gathering and Using Data for Value-Based Health Care Initiatives—About the Series
- Attention JATCs: It’s Not 2007 Anymore!
- Time Away—Trends in Leave Measurement
- Legal & Legislative Reporter
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Articles include: - The Doctor Is in—at the Workplace
- Harnessing Patients’ Good Intentions
- Financial Wellness: An Indispensable Addition to 401(k) Education
- Leading the Way: A Clear Investment Policy Statement
- Stable Value: Blast to the Past or Too Big to Fail?
- When Trustees Don’t Agree
- Legal & Legislative Reporter
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Articles include: - The Future of Multiemployer Retirement Benefits
- Linked: Disability Risk and Retirement Security
- Keeping the End in Sight: Creating a Retirement Income Culture
- A Better Answer to the Actuarial Discount Rate Debate
- Making a “Perfect Match” Takes a Great RFP
- Discretionary Services—A Growing Investment Oversight Trend
- Legal & Legislative Reporter
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Articles include: - You Can’t Have a Conversation if You Don’t Speak the Language: The Need for Clear and Informative Patient Materials
- Is Your Organization a Healthy Enterprise?
- Exchanges Will Alter Health Care Coverage Landscape
- Top Ten Wellness Program Mistakes
- Hearing Care: Final Piece in the Benefits Package
- Advanced Technology Makes Pharmacy Benefits Easier to Manage
- Legal & Legislative Reporter
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Articles include: - Our Health Care Literacy Dilemma: How to Ensure Understanding
- Are You Leaving Your Female Workers Behind?
- Helping Apprentices and Journeyworkers Become “Financially Fluent”
- Peer to Peer: Plan Mergers
- Who’s Afraid of Open Enrollment? It’s Not a Problem... It’s an Opportunity
- Outsourcing Benefits—Rules of the Road
- Key Issues in Securing Investment Managers
- Legal & Legislative Reporter
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Articles include: - Accountable Care Organizations May Revolutionize Health Care
- Wellness Challenge: Diverse and Scattered Workforce
- How Lucky Can We Get! (It Depends on Your Health)
- Fiduciary Duties Created by Project Labor Agreements
- The Role of Perceptions in Communicating Disability Risk
- Peer to Peer: Trustee Education
- Legal & Legislative Reporter
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Articles include: - Trustee, Employee Compensation Reporting Demystified
- Medical Tourism: Is Now the Time to Offer This Benefit?
- Are You Controlling Fraud and Abuse in Your Prescription Drug Program?
- Drug Utilization Review
- Why Be a Trustee?
- Managing Disability: Simple Job Accommodations Can Save Thousands in Potential Work Loss
- Peer to Peer: Pension Funds
- Legal & Legislative Reporter
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Articles include: - Living Through IRS and DOL Audits and Investigations
- Time to Tighten Health Plan Claims and Appeals Practices
- Keeping Pace: The Role of Technology in Regulatory Compliance
- The Intricacies of Apprenticeship Training Fund Collections
- Voluntary Insurance: What Businesses Need to Know
- Peer to Peer: Health and Welfare Funds
- Legal & Legislative Reporter
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Articles include: - Closing Preventive Care Gaps With New Technologies
- The Case for Automatic Enrollment— Stronger Than Ever in 2011
- Annuities in 401(k) Plans: What a Plan Sponsor Should Keep in Mind
- Grandfathered Status: Right or Wrong for Your Plan?
- Don’t Just Take Their Word for It: Find Right Health and Productivity Management Programs
- Peer to Peer: Technology
- Legal & Legislative Reporter
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Articles include: - "I Know I Could Save More, but..."
- Finding Success in the Changing World of Reform and Incentives
- Building a Better Prescription Plan
- Group Purchasing: A Good Approach for Employee Benefits?
- A New Approach to Pension Liability Mitigation
- Peer to Peer: Changing Professional Advisors
- Legal & Legislative Reporter
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Articles include: - Active Ownership: Corporate Governance Trends Reinforce Postcrisis Reform
- Globally, Wellness Programs Lead to Healthier Employees
- The Who, What, When, Where, Why of Trustee Meetings
- How to Meet the Challenges of Unlimited Medical Plan Maximums
- Helping DC Participants Make Better Investment Decisions
- Creative Liquidity Solutions: Employee Stock Ownership Plans
- Legal & Legislative Reporter
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Articles include: - Self-Funding—Is It Time to Go It Alone?
- Specialty Pharmacy—From Humble Beginnings, a Cottage Industry Comes of Age
- Health Care Reform 2011: Group Plan Mandates
- Sizing Up Health Care Reform: What Small and Midsize Companies Need to Know
- Filing Proofs of Claim: Recovering Money Rightly Owed to Pensioners
- "Benefits Wizard" Engages and Guides
- Legal & Legislative Reporter
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Articles include: - Using All the Tools—Communications as a “Do-It-Yourself” Project
- A New Due Diligence Approach for a New Age of Fraud
- An Alternative Way to Collect on OPL Claims
- A Contemporary View of Portfolio Risk and Diversification
- DOL’s About-Face on Advancement of Fees Leaves Heads Spinning
- Legal & Legislative Reporter
- 56th Annual Employee Benefits Conference
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