Benefits Magazine and Canadian Benefits & Compensation Digest welcome articles on benefits-related subjects. Submissions can be practical or how-to in nature, perhaps dealing with a particular aspect of plan administration or design. They can also be theoretical discussions of current benefits issues and trends or legislative and regulatory developments that affect those in the benefits field.
Readers have asked for articles on these current topics:
Multiemployer Plans
- Retirement security
- Reporting and disclosure--especially new PPA requirements
- Multiemployer defined contribution/annuity pension plans
- Fiduciary responsiblity and liability
- Trustees meetings (locations, frequency, voting, minutes, etc.)
- Value-based health care
- Trustee expenses
- Pension and welfare plan mergers
- Pension plan funding improvement/rehabilitation plans
- HSAs and HRAs for multiemployer plans
- Withdrawal liability/mass withdrawal
- Basic information for new trustees
- Benefits continuation (e.g., hour banks, self-pay)
- Health care reform
Public Employee Plans
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Retirement security
- Health care literacy including consumer-driven health care and communication of benefits
- Retiree health
- 403(b) plans
- GASB accounting rules
- Public plan funding challenges
- 457 plans
- Health care cost-containment techniques
- Composition and responsibilities of the board of trustees
- Investment of plan assets
- Value-based health care
- Health care reform
Corporate Plans
- Retirement security
- Health care literacy including consumer-driven health care and communication of benefits
- Global benefits
- Family and medical leave
- Health care and prescription drug cost-containment techniques, including wellness
- Fraud, claims audits and verification
- Benefits communication
- Automatic features for 401(k) plans
- Educational assistance/tuition reimbursement plans
- Value-based health care
- Health care reform
Canadian Plans
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Retirement security
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Health care and prescription drug cost-containment techniques, including wellness
- U.S./Canada cross-border benefit issues
- Trustee expenses
- Trustee selection
- Disability management
- Investment of plan assets
- Parental/compassionate care leave
- Flexible benefit plans
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Benefits communication (general overview)
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Pension reform
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Design of dental, vision, hearing benefits
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Composition and responsibilities of the multiemployer board of trustees
Please direct inquiries or outlines of proposed articles about these or other topics to:
See Submit an Article for more information on the submission process.