Benefits

After years on the job and endless family responsibilities, baby boomers are ready to redefine what it means to be retired. A composite of Del Webb Baby Boomer surveys completed throughout 2013 found that boomers plan to use retirement to revamp their social lives and focus on their overall physical well-being.

As a lawyer who has represented businesses and professionals in the claims and litigation process of long-term disability insurance benefits for more than 20 years--and a business owner myself--I have learned the importance of long-term disability insurance, as well as the importance of having the right package of long-term disability insurance benefits.

With January only a few weeks away, business owners should already be thinking about year-end tax planning, and there are five significant tax regulations and credits they should evaluate before the New Year, according to Paychex.

For 34 years, Gwendolyn Beasley worked as a clerk at the Detroit Public Library and paid a portion of her salary into a fund that would someday help pay for her pension.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) needs to strengthen systems development controls for the Premium Tax Credit (PTC) Project, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) concludes in a new report publicly released today.

Deloitte has issued a report showing that employers view the health-care system as wasteful and expensive, and that their keys for improving the system are increased transparency around pricing and performance. The report also reveals that, three years into the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), many companies do not fully understand the law's features.

Health reform expanded Medicaid to those earning less than 138 percent of poverty level. To speed up the application process, Medicaid no longer asks for savings account statements and insurance policy values to determine eligibility.

The Obama administration announced Wednesday a one-year delay in allowing small business owners to use the federal government's flawed online insurance marketplace to buy health coverage for their employees and themselves under the Affordable Care Act.