Wrangle Blog
Being Better Prepared for 2020
From time to time, Wrangle will invite a fellow Ascensus company to bring its expertise on various employee benefit attributes to the table. The purpose of these blogs is to provide an additional source of information to you, while...
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Benefit Trends that Affect 5500s
Voluntary Benefits, such as critical illness, are no longer the only way Employers are expanding benefits options for employees. To prevent stagnation, employers are diving into new territories that may need to be included in the Form 5500 reports. Recently, brokers have...
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ERISA Plan Quick Checklist
By: Emily Marr, Employee Benefits Consultant at Wrangle Compliance Begins with Knowing the Rules If a new client or prospect asks what is needed to be ERISA compliant, would you know the answer? The question is daunting because there are so many mandates to...
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Wrangle’s Changes in Operations
This blog piece is the second installment to cover changes and updated approaches for Wrangle. Read the first installment here. Here is a quick, 3-minute (or less) read of the top six updates Wrangle has put in place for our...
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Don’t Be the Last Person to Know…
This blog piece is one of two to cover changes and updated approaches for Wrangle. Indemnity benefits Why would Wrangle go out of its way to discuss indemnity benefits? The reason is simple: we are updating our protocol on how indemnity benefits...
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An Important Message from Lynda Taylor, VP of Wrangle – Wrangle’s New Email Security Measures
In Wrangle’s ongoing efforts to respect and protect any possible confidential information that we email to you, starting August 20th, we will have all outgoing emails that contain an EIN become secured emails. Many in our employee benefits industry are accustomed to these...
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Questions that Stumped Wrangle (But We Have the Answers Now!)
Wrangle has had unwavering focused-attention on Health and Welfare Form 5500s, since 2006. You would think that after 13 years, we would have heard and seen all that can be applied to Form 5500 reporting. Nope. On occasion, we do get curve...
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Penalties and Audits
Gearing up for the biggest deadline for Form 5500s of the year, July 31st, Wrangle receives many questions on reporting, particularly those focusing on penalties. Many are dancing around the debates of should we or should we not file and those “What...
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Breaking News: Mandatory Update to the SAR
By: Ann McAdam (email for questions/concerns: amcadam@wrangle5500.com) Since 2018, Wrangle, an Ascensus company, has had its own DOL validated and approved Form 5500 and Summary Annual Report software. This comes...
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