In this economy, employers are getting creative, adding sometimes nontraditional benefits to help employees save money in their personal budgets by taking advantage of group rates their managers negotiated.While many familiar benefits remain, as

A hybrid retirement funding option that melds an employer-funded pension and an employee-funded tax-deferred account into a single plan will be available to small businesses starting Jan. 1, 2010, but it's getting lukewarm advance reviews from some

Western United Life Assurance Co., a former subsidiary of now-defunct Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., says its assets are growing and it's expanding its network of agents, but for now is strategically slowing the sale of its sole the U.S. a