The Advantages of One Benefits System
(to be sure your business is ready complaint with 2019 mini-COBRA requirements) by Denise Haney, TASC Regional Sales Director, Total Administrative Services Corporation
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Your job is hard! As a small-business owner, you have a lot of different balls to juggle and things to
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manage, and you don’t have time for complex and confusing benefit plans — which we all know isn’t
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going to get easier any time soon, especially since there’s currently more than 70 years’ worth of laws
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on the books! And every time there’s new legislation, it feels like you have to find another vendor with
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another solution, and there’s yet another thing to buy, right? Small business can benefit from using one
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vendor for all their benefits administration. One system is the answer. With an integrated program
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management system, you can easily get information on your current benefits, which allows you to
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make timely decisions for your business. You don’t have to waste too many hours extracting data and consolidating information before you can make an informed decision. In order to function optimally, however, human
universal solution to handle your benefits tasks is a nearly immediate improvement in terms of
and resources in place. TASC (Total Administrative
administrative efficiencies in compliance with
Services Corporation) Universal Benefit Account
the new 2019 state mini-COBRA law. This new
has taken all the disparate functions of plans like
law requires businesses that have 19 or fewer
FSAs, HSAs, tuition reimbursement, charitable
employees to make continuation of medical
giving and more, and unified them into one simple
insurance coverage available to employees who are
platform. You as the employer can choose from
enrolled in their employer’s fully insured medical
more than 30 accounts and offer benefit plans, on
plan three months or longer when they leave or
par with large companies, without the hassle and
are terminated from that employ. To address this
work of multiple vendors.
new state requirement, TASC created our Arizona mini-COBRA administration package, which
benefits once the universal system has been
affords you the opportunity to have one company
implemented. Employees would have one card, one
completely administer this new COBRA requirement
website and one mobile app, ultimately improving
for a nominal one-time set-up, monthly and annual
company satisfaction. A one-system platform is
renewal fee. That way, you know you’re completely
designed around how people think and work, so
compliant and can rest assured that, if any
you spend less time getting more: more employee
questions arise pertaining to this new law, you have
satisfaction, more opportunities to make a difference
the correct resources in place!
and more time to focus on what matters to you. The
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One of the most obvious benefits of using a
resources departments must have the right tools
Companies can immediately enjoy many HRIS
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To learn how TASC can assist your business
TASC Universal Benefit Account makes benefits
with state and/or federal benefit/compliance
really feel like benefits!
requirements, visit www.tasconline.com.
Janice Washington Arizona Small Business Development Center Network Valerie Wynia Arizona Public Service Lisa Hunt BANNER / AETNA Jon Rosenburg Levrose Commercial Real Estate Eric Knott Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business; FinePoint HR Rick Murrary Arizona Chapter National Safety Council Frank L. Divers Business Development Specialists, Inc. Genia Kehayes Experience Scottsdale Patrick J. Van Zanen MARGRAVE CELMINS, P.C.