Your company group benefits may be obsolete. There are several reasons your plan may be outdated, let’s consider a handful: Company size; Your company could now be smaller or larger......
A company group benefits plan has a lot of unknowns when it comes to employee usage. Elevated employee usage of the benefits plan increases your group benefit rates. These rate......
A true full picture of the market Northern Financial Group has specialized in group benefits for over 30 years. Throughout this period, we’ve narrowed our focus to partnering with the......
If you’re new to group benefits and searching the market for quotes or reviewing your current group benefits plan you should take into account how long your rates will be......
It will come at no surprise that this article will ultimately recommend Northern Financial Group as your group benefits representative/broker. Nonetheless, the purpose of the article is to highlight what......
We all like deals or discounts – whether it is for products/services essential for daily business operations or non-essential items such as the newest iPhone. That being said, when it......
Our last post talked about defining plan objectives for what you want your employee benefits plan to accomplish. The next stage of building a group benefits plan is Plan Design. A......
OBJECTIVES FOR BUILDING A GROUP BENEFITS PLAN Deciding to put a group benefits plan in place or revising your current plan should be accompanied by objectives you’d like to accomplish.......
You’ve likely heard about the recent reports of some Tim Hortons locations reducing employee benefits as a result of the Ontario government increasing the minimum wage from $11.60 to $14 (effective January......
Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) released a report today outlining health spending in Canada. Drug costs are the fastest increasing according to the report – as shown in the......