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 Improving employee benefits communications and education with the Benergy Employee Benefits Web Communications Resources.
Improving employee benefits communications and education with Benico and Benergy
Benico, Ltd. has partnered with A.D.A.M.  (formerly Online Benefits), to bring you Benergy™, a web-based employee portal that combines benefits, health & wellness, human resources and personal information. By allowing quick and easy access to resources, Benergy excels at employee communications and education.
 Benergy™ is an award-winning employee benefits and health management portal used by over two million employees and dependents worldwide. Benergy 2G! is the second generation of the multi-award winning Benergy™ Thousands of companies have made these goals more attainable with Benergy™. This Web-based tool is the most advanced benefits and health management system available to employers — no matter the size. Benergy helps companies demonstrate their dedication to employees by putting them in touch 24/7 with benefits, health, compensation and human resources programs. For employers, Benergy makes HR more efficient and increases employee job satisfaction and productivity. For employees, this innovative online system delivers support tools to manage their health and benefits through a single employer-sponsored portal.
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With Benergy, employees can perform a variety of tasks conveniently, aided by personalized information, helping them become more informed consumers of healthcare and other benefits. Benergy also enables employers to streamline functions online, reducing administrative costs by automating many time-consuming tasks – explaining company programs, furnishing documents and enrolling individuals in plans.
The Benefits Center delivers rich resources tailored to any benefits package. Employees can learn how their company programs work, see what their benefits are worth, research programs, get assistance with planning, and take action. It is packed with decision support tools, such as multimedia presentations about benefit plans, tips on how to use plans and a plan comparison tool.
Benergy’s Health & Wellness Center provides an extensive system of health information and tools that enable users to assess health risks, evaluate treatment options and learn how to live healthier. It is highly visual, interactive and consumer-friendly, making it very informative to employees and family members. This is the same knowledge used by hospitals and medical schools around the world. The content is current, well-researched, physician-reviewed and unbiased.
The Human Resources Center essentially becomes an HR Department's Web site. An HR department can rely on the portal’s Human Resources Center as its communications resource to share news, policies and documents throughout the organization. HR can publish content easily without technical assistance.
The My Info Center in Benergy can let employees create personal health records, filled with details about their doctors, immunizations, tests and more. This information is secure and for the employee's eyes only. They may also subscribe to Benergy’s monthly newsletter for health and benefits news and tips.
Ready…Enroll™ is Benergy’s practical solution to preparing employees for benefit enrollment events — paper-based or electronic. If the Ready…Enroll module is activated, consumers can evaluate benefits options and record their elections all within one portal. It's basically an online communication campaign and decision support tool kit rolled into three simple steps. Users learn about and research their benefit options through plan summaries, comparisons and any other plan data in Benergy. In the end, these enrollees-to-be are directed to the forms or links they need to record their elections along with pertinent instructions.
Enrollment and Administration solutions:
Ready…Enroll Express is the Benergy System's benefits enrollment and administration solution that can
be installed quickly and easily for companies that have uncomplicated benefits plans. It is an online open enrollment system, and it also facilitates new hire enrollments and family status changes. Whenever an
event requires employees to elect benefits, Ready…Enroll Express delivers an integrated approach to communications and enrollment. More...
Ready…Enroll Complete is the best choice when you need a complete benefits management system that is available year round and that supports data interchange with internal systems and carriers. It is a flexible solution that can be configured to address even the most complex benefits environments. More...
The Real Value Statement is a personalized total compensation statement that presents each employee with the total value of cash compensation, employee benefits and potential tax savings – that is, the “real value” of employment. It’s a dynamic, living document that can be easily and frequently updated with new information, and it can be delivered online through Benergy™ and printed for mailing. Employers can be confident that employees now see the “hidden paycheck” they receive in their benefits. More...
 View an Audio Tour of Ready...Enroll Express
Ready…Enroll Express sits right inside the Benergy™ communication portal, the same portal employees rely on to for up-to-date information and tools about their benefits and HR programs. That means there is one destination for education and enrollment, with one login.
Decision Support
With the knowledge about benefit plans residing in Benergy, decision making becomes simple. As they prepare to make benefit elections, employees will be able to draw side-by-side comparisons of their options. They can delve deep into the details of each benefit to give them confidence that they are making the right choices. Employers customize their communication campaigns with messages and instructions that reflect their culture and the given enrollment situation.
Self-Service
When it's time to make their choices, employees walk through Ready…Enroll's intuitive election screens. They review and update personal and dependent data and then proceed through each benefit choice. The eligibility rules and logic configured into the system eliminate the mistakes that plague paper enrollment processes. When finished, employees view and may print out a professional looking, time-stamped confirmation statement. It couldn't be easier.
Data Management
When employees enroll through Ready…Enroll Express, their elections are captured and managed centrally and electronically in one database. Employers have full access to the data to manage the enrollment process — monitoring who has enrolled and has not, and which plans they have selected. They may choose to add new employees and manage life event changes, making Ready...Enroll Express their day-to-day benefits management system.
Reporting
With a centralized benefits database you have the ability to extract information online and on demand. Ready…Enroll Express has numerous standard management reports. And when you need to report elections to carriers and payroll or HRMS systems, the data can be extracted in spreadsheet formats. For carriers who require enrollments on their own forms, Ready...Enroll Express has an easy answer: it can autofill the carrier's form with accurate, legible elections data. The forms can then be sent electronically or printed out.
View an Audio Tour of Ready...Enroll Complete
Ready…Enroll Complete sits right inside the Benergy™ communication portal, the same portal employees rely on to for up-to-date information and tools about their benefits and HR programs. That means there is one destination for education and enrollment, with one login.
Decision Support
With the knowledge about benefit plans residing in Benergy, decision making becomes simple. As they prepare to make benefit elections, employees will be able to draw side-by-side comparisons of their options. They can delve deep into the details of each benefit to give them confidence that they are making the right choices. Employers customize their communication campaigns with messages and instructions that reflect their culture and the given enrollment situation.
Self-Service
When it's time to record elections, employees walk through Ready…Enroll's intuitive election screens. They review and update personal and dependent data and then proceed through each benefit choice. The eligibility rules and logic configured into the system eliminate the mistakes that plague paper enrollment processes. When finished, employees view and may print out a professional looking, time-stamped confirmation statement. It couldn't be easier.
Data Management
When employees enroll through Benergy, the employer enjoys the efficiency of having all of the relevant data managed centrally and electronically. Ready…Enroll Complete offers impressive flexibility in importing and exporting data. Imports can be as simple as a spreadsheet upload or as sophisticated as ongoing data connections to HRMS and payroll systems. Exports can be handled through standard reports and downloads, or electronic data interchanges between Benergy and carriers, HRMS and payroll. Such exchanges can be customized as needed.
Reporting
What's key to having a centralized benefits database is the ability to extract information online and on demand. Ready…Enroll Complete has numerous standard reports that address most of the needs that arise. Custom reports can be developed for the specific requirements of a client. Reports can be extracted in spreadsheet formats allowing for easy manipulation.
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View a Tour of the Real Value Statement
What it is
The Real Value Statement is a personalized total compensation statement that presents each employee with the total value of cash compensation, employee benefits and potential tax savings — that is, the "real value" of employment. It's a dynamic, living document that can be easily and frequently updated with new information, and it can be delivered online through Benergy™ and printed for mailing.
What it does:
For the Employee
The Real Value Statement from Online benefits aggregates employee data, pulling together pay and benefits in one place. Employees see:
Cash compensation, such as base salary, commissions, bonuses, overtime and
any others you define.
Employee benefits, including health and welfare, retirement, paid time off, work/life and tax programs. The statement contains employer's contributions toward each program and may also display employee contributions for contrast.
Estimated tax savings, this optional area of the statement estimates the tax savings each employee enjoys in insurance premiums, 401(k) contributions, FSAs, etc.
"Real Value”, the sum of the above is presented as the real value of employment for each employee.
Retirement and investments, show balances for financial programs, such as 401(k) balances, pension estimates and company stock programs.
To enhance the comprehension of the statement, the application creates appealing graphics that present the relative sizes of each component of compensation.
For the Employer
The application streamlines the process of building a Real Value Statement. Using easy to follow online wizards and a user-friendly Excel workbook, you can:
- Define the overall template and branding
- Input all the necessary employee data
- Tailor the messages, descriptions and disclaimers
- Preview the statements
- Publish them to the Benergy portal
- Print them for mailing along with a custom cover letter
After you have published and printed your Real Value Statements, you can easily update them periodically to keep pace with changes in employee salaries, benefits and company policy.
What it can do for you
Simply having good benefits does not necessarily represent real value to employees. You have to show them the value of what they have. The Real Value Statement does just that, easily and economically.
The Big Picture
Open the "buried treasure" for your employees and show them the real value of their employment. Give them one place to go where they can get the complete, personalized view of their pay and benefits. They’ll understand and appreciate
their company-sponsored programs and more effectively manage their benefits.
Current information
As an online tool, the Real Value Statement is easy to update throughout the year giving employees the most current information. Total compensation no longer is restricted to a once-a-year communication.
Online and on paper
Some employees don't have access to the Internet. And there are also times when it is necessary, and even desirable, to give each employee a personalized printed statement. With the Real Value Statement, it's easy to format and print these documents for hard-copy distribution.
All of this —the full view, the timeliness of the information and the employees' appreciation —pays dividends in improved employee retention and increased productivity.
Other info:
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If you would like more information about Benergy, including an opportunity to interact with a demo site, please contact us at (888) 669-4803.
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