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Article: More companies offering domestic partner benefits.
- Article from:
- Westchester County Business Journal
- Article date:
- January 22, 2001
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The number of U.S. companies offering domestic partner benefits has doubled in the past three years, according to a new survey by Hewitt Associates L.L.C., a global management consulting and employee benefits delivery firm.
Twenty-two percent of organizations currently offer domestic partner benefits, up from 10 percent in 1997.
Hewitt's survey of 570 large U.S. employers found that among those organizations currently offering domestic partner benefits, nearly 90 percent began offering these benefits during the past five years.
Thirty-five percent of participating companies that do not currently offer domestic partner benefits indicate they may ...