Expand work-from-home arrangements to all possible functions.Many insurers have already expanded work-from-home (WFH) orders to as much of the company as possible. Doing so helps to protect the health and safety of employees during the pandemic, provide continuity through the...
Replacement ratesCARES ActPandemicWe use micro data on earnings together with the details of each state's unemployment insurance (UI) system to compute the distribution of UI benefits after the uniform $600 Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) supplement implemented by the CARES Act. We...
17-19 The increase in public coverage may also be because of provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, which prevented states from terminating Medicaid coverage during the pandemic.20 In other words, rising rates of Medicaid coverage in both expansion and nonexpansion states may ...
premium plan as well as enhanced cost-sharing reductions, which may benefit an estimated1.4 million people.5This policy is particularly important for Black and Latino women, who were at the highest risk ofjob lossduring the pandemic. Overall, nearly15 millionuninsured individuals may now qualify fo...
volumes in the first few months of 2020 are 25 to 50 percent higher. Conversion rates remain strong too. Whenever the top of the funnel increases, you are obviously going to get a lot of folks who are earlier in their journey and lower intent, but we are seeing a strong pull-through...
How are car insurance rates changing? Record inflation, unprecedented supply chain issues and increased post-pandemic claims contributed to rising insurance rates in 2022 and 2023. Although signs point tocooling inflation in 2024, Bankrate has found thatrates are continuing to increase in 2024due to...
More people are moving to regions affected by these natural disasters: Migration into the most flood-prone counties in the U.S. more than doubled during the pandemic, according to data fromRedfin, while the counties with the highest risk of wildfires saw a 51% increase. ...
rates and of widely used measures of income. They focused on reported insurance coverage of female respondents ages 18-44 who were living with a child younger than 1 year. They looked at postpartum insurance churn overall and by insurance type (Medicaid vs. private) during three time periods:...
“Rising homeowners insurance costs across the U.S. since the pandemic began in 2020 have been driven by a combination of general inflation, replacement-cost inflation due to supply chain issues and labor shortages that increase home repair and replacement costs (55 percent cumulative increase from...
While these carriers appear to be enjoying the current environment, they may also recognize that neither the pandemic-fueled interest that boosted mortality product sales nor the higher interest rates that drove interest in savings products are likely sustainable growth drivers. Meaningful ...