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United Benefit Advisors Releases Results of New 2009 UBA Employer Benefit Perspectives Survey

Employer Opinions Provide Important Benefit Data For Accessing Market Trends
Indianapolis, IN (Vocus) April 21, 2009 — United Benefit Advisors, LLC (UBA), one of the nation’s leading employee benefits advisory organizations, today announced the release of the 2009 UBA Employer Benefit Perspectives survey, which delineates employers’ positions and opinions on Employee Communications, Personal Health Management and [...]

Unemployment insurance:

(journalgazette) - A biennial budget should have been the toughest task Indiana lawmakers faced in this most challenging of legislative sessions. A structural deficit in the state’s unemployment trust fund changed that. As layoffs increased and jobless Hoosiers filed for benefits, the fund quickly went bust.
As of last week, Indiana had borrowed $725 million from [...]

Unemployment insurance slows recession

(The Business Journal) - Payments of unemployment insurance benefits have helped buffer against the impact of the recession in the Triad and in all of the state’s counties, according to a report issued by the N.C. Justice Center.
That report tallied a total of $3.7 billion in economic activity resulting from the payment of $2.2 billion [...]

Long urges calm on jobless insurance

(journalgazette.com) - After 12 weeks of posturing, lawmakers will start seriously negotiating a fix for Indiana’s bankrupt unemployment insurance fund this week.
And Senate President Pro Tem David Long, R-Fort Wayne, started the process with comments intended to ratchet back some of the emotion in the debate.
“All four caucuses have to come together and find a [...]

Unemployment insurance: A guide

(latimes.com) - Two bright-red phones at the Verdugo Jobs Center in Glendale are direct lines to the state offices that manage unemployment insurance, the benefit that can be a lifesaver after a layoff.
But because of record unemployment levels in the state, picking one up doesn’t mean you’ll get through any time soon.
“Sometimes people call all [...]