We offer a full benefits communication system to educate and engage employees in their benefits, so they can better understand and appreciate their voluntary benefits.

Our communication services are available at no direct cost to you:

• Customized communication materials, ranging from fliers and emails to Youville, our interactive benefits learning website
• Group meetings to help employees understand what to expect from their upcoming enrollment
• Informative, personal 1-to-1 benefits counseling sessions
• Post-enrollment surveys to measure employees' satisfaction with their enrollment experience, which is shared with you
• 1-to-1 sessions with employees to review their personal benefits situation and how their elections will affect their paychecks as well as educate and enroll them through our enrollment system 

Whether it's through leveraging tax savings, reducing enrollment costs, improving employee participation in wellness programs or reviewing eligible dependents, our suite of proven cost-management services can help you deal with today's budget challenges:

• Aid employee cost-sharing —it really is possible to lower health plan costs by increasing plan variables such as deductibles and co-pays - and still ensure employees have quality coverage. Our full portfolio of employee-paid voluntary benefits can help offset the out-of-pocket expenses your employees may incur.
• Boost tax savings — Through our benefits communication and education practices, we can help employees better understand the benefits of a Section 125 plan, which increases plan participation and provides greater tax savings for the employer.
• Decrease enrollment expenses — You can reduce the costs associated with employee benefits enrollment, such as materials, manpower and even IT expenses, by taking advantage of our end-to-end enrollment services, delivered on an innovative electronic platform.
• Promote employee wellness — By education employees about their available wellness plan, we can help increase awareness and participation, which will yield a fuller return on your investment.
• Confirm eligible dependents —Identify and remove ineligible employee dependents from your benefits plan to uncover significant savings. Our dependent review services can help verify who qualifies for your health care plan.

Partnerships are an important part of how we do business in the government and educator markets. By aligning with organizations dedicated to helping cities and their employees, we can better understand the needs of the public sector and help provide solutions to many of their issues.

Our enrollment services simplify your benefits administration so everything is as easy and efficient as possible:

• Full-service, core and voluntary enrollment services — Through our 1-to-1 meetings with your employees, we can communicate all of your benefit offerings, from benefit plans, plan design changes and wellness programs. We can also enroll employees in their elections quickly and efficiently through our electronic enrollment system.
• Time-saving updates — Save your HR staff valuable time through our customized electronic data return file, which outlines employees’ payroll deductions, provides updates to employees’ contact information and can easily integrate into your administrative system.
• Suite of online administrative services — These services, exclusively for our plan administrators, are designed to help make billing and other administrative tasks quick and easy. They also include access to HRAnswersNow®, a human resource website that provides daily news, tips and research tools.
• Service as personal as it is professional — We’re proud to provide our customers with the speed and convenience of technology, but we never underestimate the need for professional, personal service. That’s why we have experienced specialists available by email and phone to assist your clients and their employees.

More commonly used when purchasing tangible items such as tractors, computers and office supplies, cooperative purchasing allows public entities to legally purchase through a single contract without duplicating the competitive bidding process. By leveraging our Sourcewell contract, you can avoid:

• Duplicating the bidding and contract process
• The unpleasant experience of low bid, low quality responses
• Time-consuming and invalid vendor protests

Sourcewell awarded us a contract as part of a competitive RFP process. We earned that contract not only because of the quality, convenience and affordability of our products and services, but also because we have more than 60 years of experience working with public sector employees like yours.

Visit the Sourcewell website to learn more.