Benefits Administration

Expertise and Resources to Streamline Administration and Simplify Benefits

You can rely on a local partner to lift the administrative burden and navigate the complexities of changing regulations as your business grows. Alera Group offers:

  • Tools and technology to simplify online benefits enrollment, employee communications and eligibility management
  • Services to help streamline onboarding and offboarding employees
  • Solutions to help you maintain regulatory compliance and reporting, including 5500 and ACA Reporting
  • Expertise to help you offer and administer payment account solutions
  • Billing reconciliation tools
  • COBRA and retirement plan services.

Alera Group clients have access to a comprehensive suite of services designed to provide administrative relief and compliance support, including:

  • 5500 Services
  • Affordable Care Act (ACA) Reporting Services
  • Personalized Benefits Technology
  • Payment Solutions.

Benefits Administration Services that Grow with Your Organization

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EXPERT EDUCATION

Events and Webinars

Employee Benefits

2025 Healthcare and Employee Benefits Benchmarking Report: How Does Your Benefits Program Stack Up?

In this session, our experts will dive into the results of our annual, market-leading benchmarking survey.

June 26, 2025 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual

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Employee Benefits

Dynamic Data: Strategies for Success

Join us for this session, as our experts will share how to utilize your organization’s data to create advanced and innovative strategies for success.

July 17, 2025 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual

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Preparing for Open Enrollment: How to Engage and Educate Your Employees on Their Total Benefits Package

In this session, our experts will share guidance on setting yourself up for success during Open Enrollment.

August 21, 2025 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual

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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Insights

Employee Benefits

Deadline for San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance is approaching

The annual San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance (SF HCSO) reporting by employers that have employees who work in the City of or County of San Francisco is due by May 2, 2025. Employers should be aware of the upcoming deadline even if they are not located in San Francisco.



The SF HCSO requires large and medium-sized employers to provide covered employees with benefits equal to or greater than the expenditure rate. Covered employees are those who have been employed for more than 90 days and who regularly work at least eight hours per week within the City of and County of San Francisco.

April 14, 2025

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Employee Benefits

Webinar: Is Captive Insurance the Right Solution for Your Business?

Join Alera Group on Thursday, April 17, for "Balancing Cost and Care: Could a Captive solution be the right fit for you?", a webinar on self-insuring to reduce group Medical Insurance costs and other business expense. Our experts will discuss how Captive solutions work and what you need to consider for your own group’s needs.

April 3, 2025

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Employee Benefits

Webinar Preview: A User-Friendly Open Enrollment

Join Alera Group on Thursday, August 15, for “Driving Communications and Engagement: Open Enrollment,” an Engage series webinar on effective, year-round benefits communications — beginning with the all-important run-up to Open Enrollment.

August 2, 2024

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Employee Benefits

Legal Alert: ​​​​​IRS Issues Affordability Percentage Adjustment for 2024

​The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released Rev. Proc. 2023-29, which contains the inflation adjusted amounts for 2024 used to determine whether employer-sponsored coverage is “affordable.”

August 24, 2023

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