detailed chapters on Social Security and Medicare; Retirement benefits, covering defined benefit (pension) and defined contribution (401(k)-type) plans, individual retirement accounts, cash balance plans, and much more. An appendix explains the automatic enrollment provisions of the Pension Protection Act of 2006, the most important recent federal law affecting retirement plans; Health benefits, including chapters on drug, dental, and vision plans, retiree health benefits, and managing health care costs (among other topics); Other benefits, such as leave, workers compensation, and domestic partner benefits; and Public-sector benefits, covering both health and retirement benefits in the public sector, regulation of public-sector retirement plans, and benefit cost comparisons between state and local and private-sector employers.

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