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Benefits & Compensation Digest  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

• Financial literacy, including personal retirement planning
• Health care literacy including consumer-driven health care and communication of benefits
• Health care and prescription drug cost-containment techniques, including wellness 
• LM-10 and LM-30 reporting regulations
• Multiemployer defined contribution/annuity pension plans
• Fiduciary responsiblity and liability
• Trustees meetings (locations, frequency, voting, minutes, etc.)
• COBRA for multiemployer plans 
• Trustee expenses
• Merged, frozen, or terminated DB plans
• Technology use

Public Employee Plans

• Financial literacy, including personal retirement planning
Health care literacy including consumer-driven health care and communication of benefits
• 403(b) plans
• GASB accounting rules
• Public-plan funding challenges
• 457 plans
• Health care and prescription drug cost-containment techniques, including wellness 
• Flexible benefit plans
• Composition and responsibilities of the board of trustees
• Investment of plan asets
• Technology use

Corporate Plans

• Financial literacy, including personal retirement planning
• Health care literacy including consumer-driven health care and communication of benefits
• Global benefits
• 401(k) plans
• Phased retirement
• Health care and prescription drug cost-containment techniques, including wellness 
• Fraud, claims audits and verification
• Executive benefits and perquisites
• 401(k) plan fees
• Compensation design and management
• Technology use

Canadian Plans

• Financial literacy, including personal retirement planning
Health care literacy including consumer-driven health care and communication of benefits
Pension plan governance
Health care and prescription drug cost-containment techniques, including wellness 
U.S./Canada cross-border benefit issues
Trustee expenses
Trustee selection, responsibility and duties
Compensation design and management
Disability management
Investment of plan assets
Technology use

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.