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Does Your Benefits Plan Cover Children Who are Studying Abroad?
The dog days of summer are over and it’s back to school for many, and that may include studying abroad for some students. Often this is an exciting time, but also filled with many unknowns which may...
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Benefit Plans – The Best Time for a Review
Employee benefit plans – their design and the providers – are reviewed for various reasons. Some of the common reasons include the following: A change in the employee demographics A change in the...
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Increase in Popularity of Wellness Programs
A workplace wellness program is a plan sponsor led initiative to motivate plan members to make lifestyle choices that improve their health. Data collected from the plan members’ health risk assessments...
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The Ontario Registered Pension Plan (ORPP) – It is still a go or is it?
Much has been written lately about the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP), along with the potential expansion of the CPP. The recent induction of a new Liberal government, has brought this...
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How to Tailor Benefits Plan Communications to Your Employees
Executing an effective strategy to communicate the group employee benefits plan is a challenge for most employers simply because there isn’t a fool-proof, one-size-fits-all strategy for everyone. Even...
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No One Needs Insurance Until They Need Insurance: Proper Enrolment for...
While most people would agree that it would be too late to purchase car insurance after there has been a car accident, many people do not see employee benefits in the same light. This is problematic...
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Best Practices for Filing a Long Term Disability Claim – Attending...
One of the most challenging aspects of the LTD claim submission is the proper completion of the Attending Physician’s Statement (APS). A doctor’s primary focus is patient care. Many of them are...
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The Benefits of Having an Employee Benefit Plan
You may recall the monthly deductions on your paystub that read LTD, CI, EHC or a number of other abbreviations which lower your take-home pay. You know you can’t do anything about the federal...
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What’s the Latest Employee Benefits Trend?
When it comes to selecting only one of the latest employee benefits trends, it becomes a difficult task because there are so many! Some of the latest trends include: continued impact of high cost drugs...
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Why You Should Contribute to Your Group Retirement Plan
With the RRSP season contribution deadline quickly approaching on February 29, 2016, now is a good time to think about your retirement savings strategy. Most people look forward to a secure retirement...
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