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Judgment & ambiguity · When to escalate

As the PEO or benefits administrator, you discover an enrollment or deduction error that may have affected employees across multiple client companies, but you don't yet know how many or for how long. When do you disclose to the clients, and how do you handle the unknown scope?

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A benefits error that touches employees' pay and coverage is one where I disclose early, because the cost of clients hearing about it from an angry worker or a carrier is far worse

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