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Benefits

It is essential that owners know about the benefits their employees may qualify for. This page offers specific topics, including benefit plans, pensions, premiums, retirement plans, and more.
Employee Benefit Plans
Learn about the uniform minimum standards required by federal law to ensure that employee benefit plans are established and maintained in a fair and financially sound manner.

Workers' Compensation Programs
Learn the in's and out's of general federal and state workers' compensation rules, or look up specialized programs to aid coal miners, longshoremen, and workers from other industries.

Benefit Guarantees FAQs
Answers to frequent questions about benefit guarantees.

Plan Terminations
Is your retirement plan safe if your company goes under?

Premiums
Basic information about what premiums are, who is responsible for them, and where they should be sent.

Social Security Benefits
The Social Security Admininstration's Work Site: A summary guide to employment support for individuals.

BenefitsLink
Helps employers stay informed of the latest employee benefit plans: know your competition.

Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation's Small Business Guide
The Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation's Small Business Guide summarizes all employer administrative responsibilities under the pension insurance program in a single, easy-to-understand reference publication.

Employee Benefits Security Administration
DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration offers useful information for retirement plans, benefits, and savings.

Retirement Plans, Benefits, And Savings
Link to the Department of Labor's website on retirement plans, benefits, and savings.

Select A Retirement Plan
This website offers the basics of retirement planning. Created by U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Small Business Administration, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Merrill Lynch.

Calculate Commuter Choice Business Benefits
Provide valuable commuter benefits to your employees.

IRS Retirement Plans For Small Business
The IRS provides information about retirement plans for small business.

Keogh Plans And 401(k) Plans
The IRS provides detailed information on Keogh, Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees (SIMPLE), and 401(k) plans.

Simplified Employee Pensions
What small businesses need to know. Simplified Employee Pensions, known as SEPs, represent an easy, low-cost retirement plan option for employers.

Women's Business Center: Retirement Plans
Discussion of retirement plans, courtesy of the SBA Women's Business Center.



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