Accelerated Cost Recovery System (ACRS): Overview and Key Criticisms

Learn about the Accelerated Cost Recovery System (ACRS), its benefits as a tax break for businesses, and the criticisms that led to its replacement by MACRS in 1986.
Employee Benefit News

These low-cost benefits help employees de-stress

From heavy workloads to a hectic holiday schedule, employees could use a break with benefits that help minimize their stress. "How can you offer benefits that provide stability, balance and a sense of ...
The New York Times

Video Analysis Shows Staged Recovery of Israeli Hostage Remains

Israel’s military released a drone video of the incident in Gaza, and The New York Times analyzed the footage. Israel’s military released a drone video of the incident in Gaza, and The New York Times ...
Los Angeles Times

L.A.’s musicians support Eaton fire recovery, one year later, in new benefit concert

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Exactly a year after the Eaton fire broke out, musicians are banding together once more for an upcoming benefit ...
Business Insider

Millions of retirees are about to get a 2.8% cost-of-living raise in Social Security benefits

Social Security beneficiaries will get 2.8% more in benefits next year. The increase, based on third-quarter inflation data, will impact millions of older Americans. The Social Security Administration ...
Government Executive

Cost-of-living adjustments will stay relatively static in 2026

Retired federal workers will see their defined benefit pension payments increase slightly next year, though by how much depends largely on when they were hired. The Social Security Administration ...
Military Times

Here’s the 2026 cost-of-living boost for veterans, military retirees

The Social Security Administration has announced the annual Cost of Living Adjustment affecting Social Security beneficiaries, military retirees and veterans. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) The Cost of ...
New York Post

The hidden cost to Dem benefits for migrants as government shutdown continues

Because these migrants are still considered inadmissible and removable, and their deferred status is temporary, the Department of Homeland Security and outside experts continue to count them as ...
IEEE

Markov Decision Process based Cost-Benefit Analysis of Cybercrime and Cyberdefense systems

Abstract: Over the past few years, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven decision-making systems optimize processes and improve efficiency but requires cost-benefit analysis to balance performance and ...
The Lancet

Cost–effectiveness analysis of prostate-specific antigen screening in China: a middle-income population-based microsimulation study

aDepartment of Urology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China bDepartment of Surgery, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University ...
Healthcare Dive

Health benefit cost increases expected to hit 15-year high, Mercer warns

The cost of health benefits per employee could climb an average of 6.5% next year — the highest increase since 2010, according to preliminary results from Mercer’s 2025 National Survey of ...