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Article: Voluntary benefits: offering more employee-paid choices. (Employee Benefits).(Brief Article)
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- Indiana Business Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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In the face of ever-escalating health-insurance premiums, employers are seeking ways to offer other benefits that are arranged through the workplace but 100 percent paid for by employees. These "voluntary" benefits include some, like short-and long-term disability products, that may have been paid for by the employer in the past but are now available only if the employee picks up the full tab.
Hoosiers are also interested in traditional benefits like dental and vision coverage or buying additional life insurance. Elsewhere in the country, there's been growth in such newer voluntary benefits as pet insurance, prepaid legal services, and car and home insurance, all ...