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Prevention Tactics

Prevention Tactics

Benefit Plan Audits Employee benefit plans, like other business cogs, can be taken advantage of via fraud or other forms of mismanagement. A benefits plan audit can help employers minimize this risk and ensure the plan is on track to remain sustainable. Some...
Prevention Tactics

The Benefit Volley

Is this also known as “pass the buck”? We seem to have developed an unhealthy methodology in the benefits world…pass the claim. There are multiple levels to choose from: Level one: An employer doesn’t offer a benefit plan to the employee, or limits coverage to...
Prevention Tactics

The Value of a Thorough Analysis

Just how do employers know their benefit plan has the financial integrity to not be taken advantage of via fraud or other forms of mismanagement?  While some organization will hire outside practitioners to complete a full financial audit of all of their benefits,...
Prevention Tactics

The National Programs

As discussed with John Dujay from the HR Reporter on his recent article “How will the Liberal-NDP pack affect the benefit landscape”,  when major stakeholders have yet to be consulted, these Federal Government propositions bring with them more questions than answers....