Defined Contribution & Defined Benefit Plans in Gulfport, MS

There are many different Types of Benefits that can be built inside a café plan to enrich an employer’s defined benefit arrangement that might include services like:  Medical, Medical Gap, Dental, Vision, Short and Long Term Disability, multiple Taxable and Non-Taxable Retirement Solutions. Even other out-of-the-box benefits like Day Care Reimbursement, Health Spa Visits, Supportive Counseling Services, Parking Privileges or Performance Bonuses.     

Defined Contribution Health Plans Overview

Recruiting and retaining key employees is important to every company and a company's health benefit program is a key part of the compensation they offer to their employees. Due to the rising costs of traditional employer-sponsored health insurance, Defined Contribution Health Plans are gaining popularity in the U.S.

What is a Defined Contribution Health Plan?

Rather than paying the costs to provide a specific group health plan benefit (a "defined benefit"), employers fix their costs on a monthly basis by establishing a Defined Contribution Health Plan.

The general concept of a Defined Contribution Health Plan is that a company gives each employee a fixed dollar amount (a "Defined Contribution") that the employees choose how to spend. Typically, employees are allowed to use their Defined Contribution allowance to reimburse themselves for individual health insurance costs.

Defined Contribution Health Plans are an affordable alternative to employer-sponsored group health insurance plans. Defined Contribution Health Plans by themselves are not health insurance plans.

Defined Contribution Health Plans are programs that allow employees to be more involved in their healthcare choices. With a Defined Contribution Health Plan, employees are responsible for selecting an individual health insurance plan and making payments out of their own finances.

The sections outlined on our navigation bar provide more information about Defined Contribution Health Plans.

Defined Benefit Healthcare

Defined benefit healthcare is the traditional way we think about employer health insurance. A company provides its employees with a defined healthcare benefit -- doctor visits, hospitalization, pharmacy and so on -- often at uncertain annual cost.

The benefit is administered through an employer-sponsored group health benefits plan.

Defined benefit and defined contribution healthcare are often compared to retirement benefits. Using this reference, a defined benefit would be a pension-style retirement plan. 

Hybrid Defined Benefit AND Defined Contribution Plans

Hybrid plans attempt to blend the advantages of Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution plans. These plans generally look like Defined Contribution plans but have all the bells and whistles of Defined Benefit plans.

The bottom line is that no one plan can satisfy all the objectives of every employer. Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution plans each have their own specific advantages, depending on what the employer's objectives are. In fact, this is the reason most employers maintain both Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution plans. In doing so, they balance being competitive and creating savings opportunities for employees with the assurance that they're directing their resources toward the right employee groups. Like the basic ingredients in a recipe, each type of plan has its place in an employer's benefit program. The trick is putting a mix together that has the right measure of each.

Steps to building a Defined Contribution or Defined Benefit plan in Gulfport, Biloxi, Long Beach, Ocean Springs, Hattiesburg, Jackson & Pascagoula, Mississippi as well as Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee & Florida.