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It’s almost fall, and it’s time to start thinking about your Massachusetts PFML private plan exemption if you have one.  Many employers got an exemption by using a private PFML plan [...]

I don’t think many people grow up saying, “I really want to be in the insurance business when I grow up.” It also might be hard for most to understand how somebody can get [...]

Despite the madness of the last 14 months, there have been some good things that have come from the pandemic.  One of those good things is we’ve all learned to work differently, and in some [...]

Today we were fortunate to have Bill Alpine, Executive Director and Lisa Shepard, Senior Manager, Benefit Operations, Program Integrity, and Appeals from the Department of Paid Family and Medical [...]

Fallon recently announced they are leaving the commercial health insurance market to focus on Medicare plans.  On January 4, Tufts and Harvard Pilgrim announced they have formally combined the [...]

To date, the IRS still has not clarified how PFML benefits in Massachusetts will be taxed.  We’ve had several questions from employers about this, and there are simply no firm answers yet. [...]

Last week was a busy week of questions from people getting ready for the Paid Family and Medical Leave launch on January 1.  Thought I’d share some of the info here. Q:  We have employees [...]

I was talking to a client a couple of weeks ago about long term care insurance. One of her most important goals is to be able to remain in her home if she needs care later in life. We were [...]

We’ve had several questions from clients in the last week about how the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave program will handle maternity leave.  The PFML website has some good [...]

There’s been a several developments with the Massachusetts PFML program over the last few weeks.  I’ll capture some of them here. Private insured PFML plan exemptions were extended to [...]