Benefitfocus vs. BenefitWallet

It is well suited for a small company of maybe 300-400. It is less appropriate for companies in areas where a transit and parking benefit is a must.

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While the user interface is relatively easy to use and offers nice functionality, from out experience, we had an issue that their fraud security was weak. One of our cards was somehow used out of state, at a pharmacy that it had never been used at before, with 3 transactions for exactly $100 each every day. One would think that some type of software AI would have flagged that as suspicious activity, but no. It was caught when the member tried to use the card and it was declined, and the last $100 transaction was processing, draining the account to zero. We called customer service, and they said paperwork was coming out - one document for each transaction, which was a huge amount of paperwork - via next day air to file the fraud claims. They were also supposed to put a freeze on the account immediately. After a week, NO paperwork had arrived, and when I called in to track it down I also found that the CSR had NOT shut the account down and the fraudsters were attempting further withdrawals of transactions for

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• Enrollment Reports
• Customer Service
• File Feed Setup

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• Great at selling their product but not keeping their promises.
• Too many glitches and they always advise it will be updated/corrected on their next "quarterly update".
• They can't administer QTB plans (parking and transit) which is an essential benefit plan offered to companies. They didn't officially come out with this news until after we had implemented and launched the program. During implementation, they made it appear like it would work.

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Did not research any, as we were using Benefitfocus for our Allstate benefits for years prior to implementing it with all benefits.

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BenefitWallet was recommended to us by our Health Insurance Broker, so we did not explore other options. However, BenefitWallet is nice in that you don't need to keep receipts and transactions are generally accepted and not declined as happens with other providers.

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• It was a negative impact because we launched the program during open enrollment only to revert back to the old platform, BeneTrac, 3 months later.
• Bad impression on the benefits team to implement a program that didn't deliver.

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