Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s late May, and it seems like January 1 is a long time from now.  It’s not.  It’ll be here before you know it, and the start of the year will bring us the new Massachusetts [...]

In my last post, I covered the integration of PFML and employer paid STD plans.  That post, linked here: [...]

I’ve had so many questions about how to integrate existing group disability plans with PFML that I thought I’d do a couple of posts about it.  This one will cover employer paid short term [...]

A couple of our clients with employee paid short term disability plans have had questions from employees like the one above.  They are wondering why in the world they’re paying for short term [...]

As mentioned in previous posts, there are a couple of insurance companies who are able to provide quotes for insured Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) private plans.  These plans [...]