benefits Archives - Go Live Smart

Take Time to Consider your Benefits

For most of us, late fall means open enrollment season, that time of year when you can make changes to your benefits selections (or sign up for benefits, if you...

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Qualifying Life Events Create Opportunities

If you’re facing big changes in your life, you should consider whether they also warrant changes to your health benefits.Typically, you can’t sign up for or make changes to your...

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Get Schooled: Employer-Sponsored Education Benefits

In 2021, Walmart announced that it would invest nearly $1 billion in Live Better U, its employee training and development program. Chick-fil-A offers tuition discounts at more than 100 universities....

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What to Consider When Considering Voluntary Benefits

As an employee, you might have the opportunity to complement your standard benefits package with additional benefits that are not underwritten by your employer in the way that your health...

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Tapping into Employer-provided Mental Health Benefits

As the stressors of the last few years increased the attention paid to mental health, many employers realized that they should play the same kind of role in their employees’...

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Decoding Benefits Acronyms and Abbreviations

Benefits documents sometimes seem to be nothing but a bunch of bewildering acronyms strung together. But the meanings behind those letters should be anything but bewildering because they represent key...

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How to Read an Explanation of Benefits

Most people who have health insurance have become accustomed to receiving an Explanation of Benefits (or “EOB”) after a provider visit. Usually prominently marked “This is not a bill,” the...

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Eyes and Teeth: When are they Covered?

Your eyes and your teeth have something in common: They tend to be treated differently than the rest of your body when it comes to health benefits. In fact, you...

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Be a Better Healthcare Consumer

For a long time, people with employer-provided benefits were pretty complacent about healthcare costs. In recent years, though, as more and more cost has shifted to patients and deductibles have...

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Your Benefits: Emergency Care and Urgent Care

When a pressing medical condition presents itself, your first thought usually isn’t, “What will my healthcare benefits cover?” But that often will be your second or third thought, and knowing...

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