Benefits Education

If a lot of Christmas movies seem to be fueled by injuries, property damage and other mishaps and disasters, maybe it’s just art imitating life. Ladders, ice, saws, electric lights and dangling decorations lead to a few hundred real-life Clark...

If you’re an employer or benefits administrator, part of your job during open enrollment is to equip employees with the information they need to make the best decision about their healthcare benefits. This year is no exception. Yet, most employees...

If you’ve noticed that you’re being bombarded with emails and robocalls about your health insurance coverage lately, well, ’tis the season. Open enrollment, the annual period when you can apply for or make changes to your health insurance plan, is upon...

During open enrollment and throughout the year, it’s helpful for employers and human resources professionals to know how to talk to their multigenerational workforce about health savings accounts (HSAs). One of the best approaches? Speak directly to each generation’s life...

At WEX’s Health division, we’re still buzzing—and beat—from hosting the inaugural National Health Savings Account Awareness Day (HSA Day) last week on October 15. But our many months of preparation for this day were decidedly worth it, as thousands of...

October kicks off both open enrollment season and Halloween. But if you’re an employer, you’ll find that none of this month’s Halloween tricks will unnerve your employees as much as their own financial health problems. Now is the perfect time...

To understand how Americans make decisions about their health plans, including whether to enroll in a health savings account (HSA), we thought it best to go straight to one of our most valuable sources—the intensive focus groups that were part...

Special Guest Contributor: Justine Burnham Over the last two weeks, you’ve met Rebecca Dunlap and Eddie Medellin, two of the panelists who will participate in our live broadcast of National HSA Awareness Day, to be held Tuesday, Oct. 15, at...

Which medical expenses can you use your health savings account (HSA) to pay for? Which are off limits? It’s a great question, and one whose answer did change earlier this year—to the healthcare consumer’s advantage: In July, the IRS announced...

Special Guest Contributor: Justine Burnham Last week we launched a blog series to introduce you to the National HSA Awareness Day panelists who will be putting their HSA knowledge and experience to work to help more people figure out how...