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Benefit Administration

The employee benefits industry is slowing moving away from paper. Here at Nefouse & Associates, we provide a full-service benefit admin platform that can be used for benefits and employee on-boarding.

Not that long ago, only large employers had the resources for a benefit administration system. That has changed in the last few years. With technology evolving the benefit administration systems dropped significantly cost. Here at Nefouse & Associates we spent a great deal of time researching the best benefit admin system that we could offer our clients as a provided service. We focused a platform that could be used for small & mid-sized Indiana businesses. A few key components of our platform are ease of use by both employer and employee. Easily customizable, a streamline builds out process that does not take weeks, or days but hours. A smart phone app for the younger employees who like information on demand.

Why Online Benefit Administration?

The goal of online benefit administration is to eliminate the need for paper forms, reduce errors, save time and have one platform for benefits & HR.

A benefit administration system will help employee to reduce errors, eliminate unreadable handwriting & prevent missing information. Employees can compare health plan options side by side and see payroll deductions prior to making plan elections. Digital signatures complete the benefit elections process.

Employee Engagement

Controller has access to real-time updates on the enrollment processes. Controller then can remind employees directly that they need to complete the enrollment process.

Employees only must enter their demographics one time in the benefit admin system. That information then can be transposed to multiple insurance policies applications or electronic digital feeds (EDI). With no more need for duplicate data entry, an employee can save time during the enrollment process. Employees can go home and have their spouse review insurance benefits offerings

Company Administration

Access to employee insurance enrollments, generate enrollment reports, eliminate incomplete employee applications & create a payroll deduction summary for all plan elections. Electronic Data (EDI) Information feed from the benefit administration platforms can send members enrollments directly to the insurance companies. All these benefit administration features save controllers and HR time. These admin systems can maximize HR productivity by shifting time from benefit administration to other higher value activities.

Reporting

Benefits administration system have the capabilities to generate multiple types of reports. This reporting can save hours of manually calculating employees and employer benefit deductions. During open enrollment, an employer can quickly create a report on employee elections changes.

Employee On-boarding

Welcome new hires with personal communication giving them access to the benefit administrations systems. There is value in starting the employee on boarding and benefits elections process once that employee accepts the job offer.

Most benefit admin systems have advanced technology to offering additional services. One of those services is hiring new employees with simplify on-boarding. A new hire can have a positive second impression by logging in to a benefit admin system that has been customized to their new employer. On-boarding can consist of collecting W-4, I-9, emergency contact, bank account info for direct deposit, company handbook and review any custom document pertaining to their new employer. The feature of obtaining a digital signature for all on-boarding documents simplifies the entire process.

Another feature that is gaining value is when a potential employee would like to review the insurance benefit prior to accepting the job offer. Our platform can give that potential hire access to the insurance benefits.

Compliance

With companies that have reporting requirements under the ACA, the benefit admin platform can save hours data collection. A good system should provide applicable large employer calculator (ALE) which can determine if a group is required to report under the ACA. Then have the option of generating those reports from the benefit admin system.

Cobra administration integration is now an option for moth benefit admin systems. Multiple third-party administrators (TPA) are contracting with admin system to streamline offering cobra to qualified beneficiaries. Within the benefit admin system, when an employee is terminated then the communication goes directly to the TPA and they administer the Cobra offer. The goal is to where the employer only must touch the termination one time.

Human Resource Information System

Benefit administration system also integrate additional HR services. Humana resource information system (HRIS) which provides human resource management which can aid in a company’s growth and employee communication. HRIS tools can provide Personal Time Off (PTO) tracking, company statistic, performance reviews, company directory, employee events, company calendar, and the ability to send employee surveys.

More benefit admin system is incorporating payroll integration with the services they offer. Having one integrated system for benefit administration & payroll eliminates the need for duplicated data entry. When employee has a payroll, deduction change from a benefit election, the systems automatically update. Most companies that offer payroll services are contracting with benefit administration platform.

If your payroll company is not integrated with the benefit administration platform, most bene admin systems will allow a deduction report to be generated which then can be uploaded into the payroll vendor.

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