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Group insurance and group annuity representative Zaheb recently sold a group insurance contract to Alumo Inc., a company that employs about 50 plant employees. This is the first time the company offers such a plan. The employees are asking the company questions about how the prescription drug plan works. They are especially surprised to see that the plan covers very few of the brand name drugs often prescribed by their physicians. What should Zaheb do?
Brian is a machinist. For the past seven years, he’s worked for a company that offers a group benefits plan. Under that plan, the premiums for long-term disability coverage are entirely paid by the employees. Last year, an injury forced Brian to stop working for eight months. After a four-month waiting period, during which he collected Employment Insurance (EI) benefits, Brian received long-term disability (LTD) benefits from the group plan’s insurer. Brian is now preparing his income tax return and wonders about the tax implications of the different benefits he received while on disability. What statement accurately describes the tax treatment of Brian’s EI and LTD benefits?
Jackson, a new life insurance agent, is planning to promote a group insurance plan to small businesses in the area. After some research, he is able to locate a list of small business contact information online. The list contains office hours, phone numbers, as well as the office addresses. He prints off the list and prepares marketing material pertaining to group insurance and mails it to each of the small businesses. Jackson’s business plan is to call the businesses one by one 14 days after the marketing material has been mailed. What should Jackson be aware of to comply with the usual business solicitation practice?