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How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Group Benefits in Canada

November 7, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, and it’s changing the way many industries operate, including group benefits. From catching fraud faster to helping employees stay healthier, AI is quietly transforming how benefit plans are managed and experienced.

Navigating Uncertainty: Why Employers Need a Benefits Consultant More Than Ever

October 6, 2025

Across Canada, employers and their employees are facing heightened uncertainty. Rising inflation, geopolitical instability, and shifting trade dynamics are fueling unease in the workplace. For many organizations, this turbulence has underscored the importance of leaning on trusted benefits consultants to help chart a clear, strategic path forward.

The Rising Tide of GLP-1s and Biologics: Strategic Cost Management for Employers

September 17, 2025

Prescription drug coverage continues to be a top cost pressure for Canadian group benefits plans. According to a 2025 report, overall drug trend – the year-over-year change in relative annual drug spend per plan member - rose 5.8%, driven by a 2.7% increase in specialty‑drug spend per claimant.

Prepare for Rising Health Benefit Costs in 2025

May 30, 2025

Employees are choosing employers who care, and a custom-designed Group Life and Health benefits plan that helps look after your employees is one of the foundational components of a competitive rewards and compensation strategy. In our latest Benefits news, we speak to rising health benefit costs in 2025.

How to Mitigate Group Benefit Costs Without Sacrificing Value

February 2, 2025

Businesses should focus on ways to mitigate group benefit costs while maintaining a competitive and meaningful plan for employees. When approached strategically, group benefits remain a vital investment in workforce retention, productivity, and financial stability.

The Importance Of Benefits Plan Administration Tasks

February 16, 2024

Employees are choosing employers who care, and a custom-designed Group Life and Health benefits plan that helps look after your employees is one of the foundational components of a competitive rewards and compensation strategy that will attract and retain strong talent over the long-term. In our latest benefits news we share information on the importance of Benefits Plan administration tasks!

Health Spending Accounts (HSAs)

January 10, 2024

Wiegers Financial & Benefits is one of Saskatchewan’s premier locally-owned family businesses specializing in financial planning and employee benefits consulting. Within our Financial Planning Division, we offer expert investment and insurance planning services to business owners, individuals, and families, helping them achieve long-term financial goals. Additionally, our Group Benefits Consulting Division assists clients in becoming and remaining employers of choice by providing attractive employee benefits, including Health Spending Accounts (HSAs).

The Future is Flexible: Flex Benefits for Employee Wellness

October 18, 2023

A proper employee benefits program is a quintessential tool in helping to ensure employee health and well-being. As long as your employees utilize the program, it can help keep them healthy, happy, and focused at work. However, with the changing generations in the workforce – and the fact that millennials now comprise a majority of it – standard employee benefit programs need to change as well.

Help Your Employees’ Families Too With a Group Benefits Plan

October 4, 2023

When most people think about what it takes to help protect their loved ones’ financial security, they tend to think about life insurance – and it makes sense. Owning insurance that pays out a lump sum benefit to your beneficiaries in the event of your untimely death is the most effective way to ensure that even when you’re no longer here to contribute to them financially, they’ll be looked after. When an individual wants or needs to purchase life insurance, he or she typically contacts a financial advisor or insurance representative who then conducts a needs analysis to determine the individual’s life insurance needs, applies to one or more insurance companies for it, and then if the individual’s insurance application is approved (including potentially a medical questionnaire and tests), begins paying insurance premiums to keep it in-force.

How Benefits Can Help Bolster Your Employees’ Mental Health And Your Company’s Bottom Line

September 27, 2023

Wiegers Financial & Benefits is one of Saskatchewan’s premier locally-owned family businesses specializing in financial planning and employee benefits consulting. Our Group Benefits Consulting Division is vital in helping clients become – and remain – employers of choice by providing their employees and families with the group benefits, personal insurance & retirement plans they want. In our latest article we share more about how employee benefits can help bolster your employees’ mental health and your company’s bottom line.

Workplace Culture Impacts Your Company’s Bottom Line

August 2, 2023

Wiegers Financial & Benefits is one of Saskatchewan’s largest private financial planning and group benefits consulting firms. More than ever, employees are choosing employers who care, and a custom-designed Group Life and Health benefits plan that helps look after your employees is one of the foundational components of a competitive rewards and compensation strategy that will attract and retain strong talent over the long-term.- in our latest benefits news we share why the strength or weakness of your workplace wellness culture impacts your company’s bottom line.

Questions You Need to Be Asking Your Benefits Advisor

July 12, 2023

Do you know the questions you need to be asking your benefits advisor to help ensure that he or she is doing the best job for your employees, your business, and you? There’s more to it than most people realize. Benefits Advisor Matthew Hill explains. Your benefits advisor is undoubtedly an essential hire. Not only does he or she help impact your company’s bottom line but your advisor also plays a critical role in helping you look after your valued employees and their families. But how can you be confident you’ve made a good hire?

Building Your Team is Important to Building Your Business

July 5, 2023

It is important for you as an employer to understand what motivates or is valued by your employees. It’s not always about the money. Some of your people may value a flexible work schedule, e.g. the single parent who juggles after school activities for his or her children might appreciate being able to be at home when the children return from school.

How Employee Benefits Can Help You Build an Inclusive Workplace

May 17, 2023

Within our Financial Planning Division, we offer expert investment and insurance planning services to business owners, individuals, and families, assisting them in achieving their long-term financial objectives. Additionally, we have a Group Benefits Consulting Division which plays a vital role in helping clients become – and remain – employers of choice by providing their employees and families with the group benefits, personal insurance & retirement plans they want. But workplace benefits and perks are now going beyond traditional group benefits methods, Deb Wiegers explains how additional benefits can help you build an inclusive workplace.

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