Ep 42 – How To Navigate Open Enrollment


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Navigation Open EnrollmentWork at Cisco? We can help.For many the open enrollment period is just another email you quickly delete thinking nothing has really changed since last year. But this passive approach can be extremely costly if new benefits are being offered or life changes you forget about throughout the year may have happened.

On this episode we share some of our unique perspectives given how many different employee benefit packages we see regularly. We also reveal some of the more unique benefits companies are now offering that could be a nice benefit for you this fall.

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What You’ll Learn in This Episode

  • Biggest Mistakes We See Made During Open Enrollment
  • How the Passive Approach can cost you dearly
  • FSA vs. HSA
  • Pros and Cons of AD&D insurance
  • How a Dependant Care FSA differs from a Medical FSA
  • Unique Benefits Companies are now offering
  • Why reviewing these options is vital in years with a life change

 

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Chad Smith

Chad Smith is a Certified Financial Planner™. He is an active member of NAPFA, the Financial Planning Association, and FPA's NexGen. He has been quoted and appeared on WSJ.com, Bloomberg.com, Businessweek.com, Msn.com, Financial Planning Magazine, Triangle Business Journal, and Investment News.

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Mike Eklund

Mike Eklund is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ practitioner. In addition, he has an MBA in Finance and the Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor designation. He is an active member of NAPFA, is the co-host of Financial Symmetry's podcast, and has been quoted in various industry publications.

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