Investing in your employees with a Lifestyle Planning Account
06.10.22
Promoting overall well-being for your employees does not stop with traditional group health plans and pre-tax savings qualified plans. As competition for the best talent increases, employers are looking for new and exciting ways to invest in their employees while also promoting healthy habits. Embracing new employer-benefits can leave some employees feeling excluded if the programs don’t align with their lifestyle or stage. To meet ALL employee interests, employers can establish customizable, post-tax lifestyle planning accounts (LPAs) that holistically provide benefits that represent all lifecycles.
Your employees are diverse. They have varied goals and are at different stages in their personal and family development. You can give your employees a choice in how they can maximize your investment in them by providing a lifestyle planning account that is flexible and easy to use.
A lifestyle planning account is an employer-funded, post-tax planning account. The eligible expenses and plan details are customized by the employer and are developed with a focus on the overall well-being – physically, financially, and emotionally, of the employees and their families.
You can build an LPA that works for your goals as an organization and the interests of your employees. This includes the categories you’d like to cover and the specific expenses. You can also customize substantiation requirements and reimbursement deadlines. Some examples of eligible categories and expenses include:
You can get started today by partnering with Baker Tilly Vantagen, a leading benefits administration provider of pre-tax and post-tax planning accounts. We will work closely with you to develop your expense list, plan rules, employee communications and procedures. Combining our powerful administrative platform combined with our high-touch service experience, you and your employees will have:
Contact Nicole Olszyk to start designing your Lifestyle Planning Account today:
Nicole Olszyk, Senior Manager
Baker Tilly Vantagen, LLC
T: +1 (570) 319 3780
1200 Abington Executive Park, Clarks Summit, PA, 18411
nicole.olszyk@bakertilly.com | bakertillyvantagen.com
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