Employee benefits / Burton T. Beam, Jr., John J. McFadden.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 553-555) and index.

Introduction to employee benefits -- Employee benefit planning and management -- Social security benefits -- Other social insurance programs -- The group insurance environment -- Group life insurance : term coverage -- Group life insurance: lifetime coverage -- Group disability income coverage -- Providers of group medical expense coverage -- Basic group medical expense coverage -- Group major medical expense coverage -- Group medical expense contract provisions, taxation and cost containment -- Group dental coverage and other group insurance benefits -- Alternative funding methods -- Group insurance rate making -- Other nonretirement benefits -- Cafeteria plans -- Introduction to qualified plans -- Pension plan design : eligibility, contributions and retirement age -- Pension benefit formulas -- Pension plan design : additional benefits -- Pension plan funding -- Profit-sharing and other nonretirement qualified plans -- Qualified plan distributions and loans -- Plan restrictions aimed at highly compensated employees -- Plan installation and administration; investments; plan termination -- Individual retirement plans, simplified employee pensions and section 403(b) plans -- Executive benefits and nonqualified deferred-compensation plans.