"As life expectancy increases, the percentage of workers' lives spent in retirement continues to grow, while the number of working years stays relatively constant," the AAA, Washington, says in the

Charlotte, N.C.-based Bank of America Corp. is acquiring the Balboa Insurance Group as part of the deal announced today to acquire Countrywide Financial Corp., Calabasas, Calif., in a $4 billion stock

Federal law does not ordinarily require employers to provide health benefits for retirees either under or over 65, the usual Medicare eligibility age, EEOC officials write in a preamble to the new fin

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Great-West Healthcare, a part of Great-West Life & Annuity, Greenwood Village, Colo., provides medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverage for 2.2 million U.S. residents in 5,200 U.S.

The new final rule creates a "safe harbor" for employers that set a plan's normal retirement age anywhere from age 62 to 65, and the rule states that the IRS will defer to the judgment of an employer

Barbara Bovbjerg, a director at the U.S. Government Accountability Office, comes to that conclusion in an analysis of the signals that the federal government gives workers about when workers should

Highmark, Pittsburgh, is a nonprofit Blue Cross and Blue Shield carrier with a 60% share of the western Pennsylvania health insurance market, and it also is the largest health insurer in West