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ICHRA and EBHRA: New Employee Healthcare Benefit Accounts
The IRS authorized two new types of healthcare benefit accounts in 2019: the Individual Coverage HRA (ICHRA) and the Excepted Benefit HRA (EBHRA). These were (and remain) pretty big news for businesses
Read moreBenefits Cards and More Ways to Shop!
Why don’t cows shop online? They prefer printed cattle-ogues. Ha ha! 🙂 Cows may prefer those, but in 2023, almost 250 million Americans preferred e-commerce. And with more online health and wellness
Read morePot o’ Gold Benefits
With St. Patty’s Day coming up, I’m thinking about leprechauns. We’d all love to have a leprechaun help us find a pot of gold. That’s especially true when thinking about healthcare
Read moreBetter Fitness, Diet, and Mental Health
What is a vegetable’s favorite martial art? Carr-ot-eee! Eating right and getting active can be as fun as this joke, am I right?!?!?! Plus, your body and mind will thank you! Today, let’s
Read moreWomen’s Heart Health
Hey ladies, what is a heart’s favorite type of shoe? Pumps! Get it? Because hearts pump blood? It’s Betty here, and I love to put on a gorgeous pair of pumps to go out after a long day of
Read moreFinancial Benefits: What You Need to Know
Why don’t cows have any money? Because farmers milk them dry! That’s funny, but I’m sure you don’t find it funny if you are feeling ‘milked dry’ by high costs for groceries,
Read moreChoosing an HSA Beneficiary
You know I love to tell jokes, so stay tuned for more of my (in)famous humor. In the meantime, let’s get serious for a minute. More people are enrolling in high-deductible health plans (HDHPs)
Read moreUnspent FSA Funds?
You know how I love to bring you my bad jokes. But something that’s NOT funny is unspent Flexible Spending Account (FSA) funds. FSAs are an effective way to save money on taxes while reserving money
Read moreHoliday Stress Relief with LSAs
It’s beginning to look a lot like….? Most people would fill that blank with the word “Christmas,” but I would choose BUSY! This is often the busiest time of the year, from decorating
Read moreFour Tools for Better Benefits Usage
Many of you enroll in plans for the first time during open enrollment. “Firsts” are often overwhelming, and once the benefit year begins, you may need help knowing how or where to begin. To make things
Read moreOpen Enrollment Tips for Employees
Did you know Santa never holds open enrollment? His staff is sELF-employed! Get it? No? Well, open enrollment can be overwhelming, so I’m trying to lighten the mood and help you get through it more
Read moreWhat is an FSA?
A doctor tells a patient, “We’ve run every test we can think of, and the results show … you’re out of money.” You don’t want to miss out on important tests, and
Read moreYour Mental Health Matters!
I always love to start my blogs with jokes, but mental health is no laughing matter. It’s such an important topic that two awareness initiatives are conducted yearly: May is Mental Health Awareness
Read moreWhat is a Section 125 Cafeteria Plan?
Do you have fond memories of your school cafeteria? If not, here’s a joke for you. What’s the worst thing you’ll likely find in a school cafeteria? The food! Now that you’ve
Read moreCan FSAs and HSAs Help with Back-to-School Shopping?
Here’s a back-to-school joke: What’s the king of all school supplies? A ruler! Get it? Kings are rulers, and rulers are something schoolkids need … yeah, OK, OK. But – did you
Read moreWhat is an HRA?
Does an apple a day keep the doctor away? Only if you have good aim! HA HA HA! But what if you don’t have good aim but still need a doctor? An HRA may be able to help you pay for that service. If
Read moreKeep the ‘Fun’ in Summer Fun!
Here’s one of my favorite summer jokes for you. Do fish get a summer vacation? No, because they’re always in school! Get it? They travel in “schools.” No? Whatever…I think I’m funny! Seriously,
Read moreWhat are HSAs?
After many years of building up their savings account balance, a wife tells her husband they have finally saved enough money to buy what they started saving for in 1999. Her husband says, “You mean
Read moreFSA Debit Cards: Easy and Convenient
What do you call a country that doesn’t use payment cards? A Czech Republic! Get it? 🙂 Believe it or not, in 2022, only 55% of Americans wrote at least one check. Nearly half of us didn’t
Read moreTravel Stress Relief and Benefit Accounts
The food on my flight wasn’t good. It was a little plane. Get it? Plain? Plane? No? Ah, never mind. But, if you’re heading out of town on a plane this summer, plain food may be the least of your
Read morePTSD Awareness, Symptoms, and Treatment
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, affects an estimated 5% of U.S. adults in any given year and about 6% of the entire population at some point in their lifetime. Learn more about this condition,
Read moreWhat is a Summary Plan Description?
If you receive healthcare benefits from your employer, you should be given access to a Summary Plan Description (SPD). Your SPD provides essential details about your company’s benefits plan
Read moreFSAs, Status Changes, and Contributions
Here’s another of my famous jokes for you. Change is inevitable – except from vending machines. HA! 🙂 One of the possibly inevitable changes you may be facing in your own life is in
Read moreSleep Relief and Your Benefits
What do you get when you eat cookies in bed? Crumby sleep! Get it, crummy sleep? That joke may or may not be funny, but what’s definitely not funny is when you do get crummy sleep. Getting enough
Read moreManaging Stress with Benefit Accounts
A lot of people I talk to are dealing with stress. Long-term stress is unhealthy, of course, and thinking about that may stress you even more – but never fear, the Captain’s here! Let’s discuss
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