What Is ERISA?

For instance the coverage of the Federal State unemployment insurance system has been extended to now incorporate 80% of employed workers. Benefits for unemployed workers have reached an all-time high of 200 million dollars a month (Altmeyer, 2000). The public assistance outline of the Social Security act has been upgrade to incorporate Federal grants to disabled people in need who are ineligible for social insurance benefits or whose insurance benefits are not acceptable. The railroad Retirement Act and the Old Age Survivors and Disability Insurance system are organized to make available protection for workers moving into or out of the railroad

There are two new provisions of the Affordable Care Act that apply to employers of all sizes:

Workers will be allowed to keep their employer-provided health insurance even if they lose their job or if they’re in between jobs

However, for lowering the cost of health insurance, there is a gap between the before cost and the lowered cost. To fill in the gap the government enforces new taxes, specifically, onto the higher-earners. This is bad news for the rich but good news for the lower class. Individual mandate and employer mandate are also enforced. According to the individual mandate, if the lower-classmen can afford the insurance but choose to not purchase one, they are penalized with an annually increasing fee; this fee will help fill in the gap difference. On the other hand, if one cannot afford insurance, he/she can ask for an exemption. For employer mandate, all businesses that have 50 or more full-time equivalent (FTE) employers are required to provide health insurance for their FTE employers or to pay a monthly Employment Shared Responsibility Payment, formerly known as the annual employer mandate fee, which is due annually on the employer federal tax returns. In order to avoid the fees and the hassle, most of the smaller businesses that make the minimal revenue to keep their business going would want to reduce their workforce to fewer than 50 employees, thus, increasing the unemployment rate. Plus, those employees will not receive health coverage from their job. However, note that larger businesses more than likely cannot decrease their workforce and will have to pay the fees or to provide insurance for

Essential healthcare management includes the financial growth and feasibility of the health care organization. In order for a healthcare organization to reach its full potential it needs to be fully staffed with both medical and managerial professionals, as well as having the funds to invest in the most up to date technology. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation “Baseline estimates show that over 41 million individuals were uninsured in 2013, 61% of uninsured adults said the main reason they were uninsured was because the cost was too high or because they had lost their job”. The EMTALA or Emergency Medical Treatment And Labor Act or anti-dumping law was enacted in 1986 it was designed to prevent hospitals from transferring the uninsured or Medicaid patients to public hospitals without providing a medical screening examination to ensure they were stable for transfer first. Regardless of their options to pay, they are to be seen and treated with life-saving and "stabilizing" emergency care with transfers to advanced trauma centers, if need be. Effective Human Resources coupled with a balance between cost and revenue are essential to being able to provide quality Health Care. It has been proven these elements all play positive roles in contributing to the overall efficiency of the system. An organization can enhance the quality of health care provided just by focusing on the major components.

The third way is for employers to utilize the reporting/disclosure guide for employee benefit plans. This is a reference tool that employers can utilize for reporting and disclosure provisions under ERISA. The fourth way is for employers to utilize the understanding your fiduciary responsibilities under a group health plan which provides a summary of the rudimentary fiduciary responsibilities pertaining to health plans that fall under the ERISA mandates.

What is ERISA? ERISA stands for Employee Retirement Income Security Act. ERISA regulates the establishment and implementation of discretionary benefits practices. Since its enactment in 1974, ERISA has been amended to meet the changing retirement and health care needs

     Social Security is a public program designed to provide income and services to individuals in the event of retirement, sickness, disability, death, or unemployment. In the United States, the word social security refers to the programs established in 1935 under the Social Security Act. Societies throughout history have devised ways to support people who cannot support themselves. In 1937 the government began issuing Social Security identification cards to all citizens. Each card had a unique number that the government used to keep track of a person’s earnings and the taxes collected from those earnings that went to finance Social Security benefits. The Social Security Act is an act in which

 An employee must be provided the same level of medical benefits, disability insurance and leave as are offered for other medical conditions or disabilities.

ERM is applied every level and unit across the company and consider the risk at entity level;

Employee protection employment rights are designed to balance the expectations of the job with the fair treatment of the employee doing it. Employee rights at work come from both as statutory rights and his/her employment contract.

Insurance reforms require guarantee issue and renewability of policies regardless of health status; also banned, are pre-existing condition exclusions. Insurance companies are now not legally able to charge higher premiums based on gender, health status, or occupation.

The benefits to the employer mirror those of the employee. Health and safety at work act 1974 also impacts on working time and breaks.

The legally required employee benefits constitute nearly a quarter of the benefits package that employers provide. These benefits include employer contributions to Social Security, unemployment insurance, and workers’ compensation insurance. Altogether such benefits represent about twenty-one and half percent of payroll costs.

The employee assistance programs commonly known as EAP’S are the services and employee benefits programs that a provided by the company to its employee to develop trust with the employee that the company is providing the best package in accordance to the employee services so that he or she can work in a stress free environment and give a batter performance.