How should I advise my clients regarding their benefits compliance obligations?

Brokers and agents take different approaches to helping clients with their benefits compliance obligations. Some become a virtual extension of the client’s team, working closely with them to handle most of the notification and reporting requirements. Others provide clients with an outside source for compliance consulting; paying for none, some or all this expense.

Regardless of which approach you take, realize that clients, particularly smaller firms, often look to their benefits professional as an advisor in this area and will place their first call to you. As you consider how you will handle benefits compliance questions, we thought it would be helpful to provide this benefits compliance reference document created by HR Service, Inc., a firm that specializes in providing outsourced benefits compliance and human resource management. Feel free to follow the link and take an online risk assessment (for your firm or for one of your clients).

Should you wish to subscribe to HR Service, Inc.’s Compliance Basics or Compliance Basics Plus services, the cost ranges from $10 to $15 per month per employer group. Be sure to mention that you were referred by Claremont Insurance Services.