Benefits
3 Ways to Document 1099 Freelance Employees
Freelance employees offer your company a number of unique benefits, including the ability to complete small, specific projects with more agility than your full-time employees, without needing to pay for full-time employee benefits.If your business is considering hiring freelance employees...
How to Better Manage & Streamline Your Company’s Payroll & Human Resources Tasks
No matter the size of your company, payroll processing, and other HR (Human Resources) tasks can impede your employees’ workloads. Simplifying these responsibilities allows for your employees to have more time to focus on other important areas for the company...
How Small Businesses Can Attract Ideal Employees with Group Benefits
The challenges small business - and their owners - face are vast. Managing employees, keeping and acquiring new clients, or simply paying the bills to keep the lights on can be overwhelming for many entrepreneurs. Amongst these issues is the question of how employee benefits are handled...
A Peek at the 2018 Oregon Insurance Rates: Changes for Individuals & Group Insurance
Recently the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services announced the final rate decisions for both individual and small business health insurance for plan year 2018.
Setting up your TASC Account
To ensure that setting up your new TASC Account goes smoothly, we’ve provided the video below to walk you through, step by step, how to do just that. If you need any additional or specialized help we’d love to help. Please contact us so that we can get in touch as soon as possible...
Health Savings Accounts (Part II): What Are the Benefits and Downsides of HSA?
Last time, we reviewed what a Health Savings Account is and how it has changed with the new Health Care Act. Now we’ll move on to whether an HSA makes sense for you and your family, including both the benefits and the downsides...
What is a Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA)?
What if we told you that you could save an average of $5,100 on your taxes every year by using a simple and straightforward health expense approach? A Health Reimbursement Arrangement Plan can do just that. What is a Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA)?
5 Important Things Employers Should Know About Paying and Auditing Your Monthly Health Insurance Invoice
Once your insurance plan has been processed and set up by the insurance carrier, you will receive monthly invoices which will detail the enrollments for each of your employees. It is important to be timely in submitting your premium payments in order to avoid the risk of losing coverage...
How Probationary Periods, Enrollment Adds, and Qualifying Events Work for Employers & Employees
When you get a new job, there’s an innate excitement that may make you look over or forget to ask about certain aspects of the job. Often, employers use probationary periods that affect benefits of new hires.What’s more is healthcare issues relating to qualifying events, adding new employees...
Understanding Your Insurance Carrier’s Explanation of Benefits: How to Read It and What to Do Next
Each time your insurance carrier processes a claim for you, you will receive an Explanation of Benefits (EOB). This is not a bill, but rather an explanation of how your claim was processed.The Explanation of Benefits will show you the amount that your provider billed, what the insurance carrier...
