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HR Year-End Checklist: 10 Critical Areas to Assess

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Quick look: As 2024 comes to a close, it’s time for HR professionals to review, reflect, and fine-tune their processes to ensure compliance, enhance employee satisfaction, and streamline operations. Two critical tasks: ✓ Review benefits enrollment: Make sure changes in employee benefits for the new year are processed correctly.

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2025 Contribution Limits: Retirement, FSA, HSA, and Commuter Benefits

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Quick look: A new year is quickly approaching, and with it comes a new set of contribution limits for retirement accounts, health savings accounts, flexible savings accounts, and commuter benefits plans. Employers and their staff should review these new figures set by the IRS and adapt their 2025 benefits plans accordingly.

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What Brokers Can Be Thankful for in 2024

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Thankfully, market trends are pointing toward a continued need for benefits and PEO brokers, and the right HR outsourcing partner can help them continue to meet those demands. Thanksgiving is quickly approaching, as is the new year, making it a natural time to reflect on what has gone well this year and what may lie ahead in 2025.

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Student Debt Repayment: The Next Big Employee Benefit

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Under the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA), this benefit has been extended through December 2025. Here’s how the incentive works: employers may contribute up to $5,250 in student loan repayments per employee per year. Payments are tax-free, whether they are issued directly to the employee or the student loan servicer.

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SHRM’s 2023 Employee Benefits Survey: What Brokers Should Know 

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Quick look: The 2023 SHRM Employee Benefits Survey highlights the shift brokers are experiencing in how clients are prioritizing employee benefits. Therefore, rather than viewing the future of employee benefits as an “out with old, in with the new” situation, it’s better to welcome a co-mingling of the two.

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The Time is Now for Brokers to Offer PEO Services

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Quick look: According to a recent report by Avasant, the adoption of HR outsourcing grew 7% from June 2020 to June 2021 – and it’s time for brokers who don’t offer PEO services to begin doing so. Here’s what brokers need to know about the key growth drivers for HR outsourcing, and how to select the right PEO partner to boost their business.

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EBRI Study Overview: Balancing Student Loan Debt Payments with 401(k) Contributions

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To help alleviate financial stress (and subsequently, improve work productivity and employee retention), it’s beneficial for brokers to explore solutions which support financial wellness goals. SMB leaders receive premium benefits, including financial wellness offerings , at negotiated rates to make them competitive with large companies.

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