July 9, 2019 Position Overview: The Care Manager will support the Population Health Management efforts of select clients of The Benefit Company.  Such will include acting as patient/family advocate in coordinating and accessing medical necessity health care services within the benefit plan for members that have chronic, complex and catastrophic conditions. The care manager shall …

The Benefit Company (TBC), a leading Atlanta executive and employee benefit consulting firm, is pleased to welcome Christine Muro to our team. Christine received her Bachelor of Business Administration from Georgia State University.  Following her graduation, she has worked in the HR and employee benefits arena for more than 15 years, primarily on the employer …

My dad was not a Boy Scout which, if you know him, is shocking for many reasons, but none more than there has never been anyone more prepared than him – for anything.   His preparedness has sometimes been the butt of some jokes – like when he bought a truckload of toilet paper during the …

It is estimated that more than one-quarter of all employers with at least 50 employees now offer a student loan repayment benefit. Why? Got millennials? Want to keep them? Need more? Some 70% of millennials graduate with more than $37,000 of student loan debt. The average for metro Atlanta residents is $22,000. That’s why. Unless …

“The Benefit Company is Committed to Remaining Privately Held”, one brochure stated.  We recently had an internal discussion about employers being better off as a client of our firm because we are Privately Held. One of our team members asked, “Do employers care if we are Privately Held?”  An immediate response included, “…nimble, flexible, entrepreneurial – …

I lost my Dad 7 ½ years ago, and my Mom 3 ½ months ago.  As you do, we have all sorted through papers and folders and pictures . . . My oldest sister found this letter that my Dad wrote to his younger children 51 years ago – the day after Bobby Kennedy was …

It’s easy to find articles and employ tips in your day on how to have a more productive workday.  There’s little thought put into how to have a quality workday. For this February blog post, I’ll play along with the whole Valentine’s theme and go as far as say we’re going to look at how …

HR Legal Issues/Updates: 14, 2018: The U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Texas declared that the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional and that the rest of the ACA is unconstitutional, as well. Although this was an interesting order by the Court, at this point in time, the status …

A free 20-minute video is now available for employers to provide employee training on stopping and preventing human trafficking. BEST (Businesses Ending Slavery &Trafficking) in Seattle produced the video, which informs employers of the threats against a company posed by human trafficking. It also provides employees with tools to help them take action if they …

We are pleased to release to you the new 2019 Annual Tax Benefit levels.  Call us if we can be of assistance in leveraging any of these tax efficient tools and strategies to your organization’s benefit. This rate chart can also be downloaded and printed from our web site.  …