NRECA has developed a new brochure, “Divorce and Your Benefits—A guide to understanding your benefit options when your marriage ends.” This new brochure highlights key points to consider and provides checklists to help employees keep track of personal data, tax[…]
Cooperatives participating in the Retirement Security (RS) Plan received invoices from October through December 2016 that contained estimated results of the RS Plan true-up calculation. The true-up process is intended to take into account the addition or removal of individual[…]
On Wednesday, February 22, 2017, email notifications were sent from the NRECA Employee Benefits website’s Message Center to some benefits administrators indicating their Retirement Security (RS) Plan benefit statement was available on the Employee Benefits website. This message, sent to[…]
As part of the new Equal Employment Opportunity Commission wellness regulations, employers are required to provide an authorization prior to spouses completing the health survey, which is administered by WebMD through MyHealth Manager. Now, when a spouse accesses the health[…]
The distribution deadline for your cooperative’s 2017 Group Benefits Program summary plan description (SPD) and summary of material modifications (SMM) documents is March 1, 2017. All of the necessary steps, along with checklists for both distributing and acknowledging distribution of your[…]