Announcements

Small Business Administration has certified Common Census as a HUBZone company. As a HUBZone company, our benefit administration services have special access and pricing with Federal RFPs. All federal contracts offer a 10% pricing advantage over others bidding on the same contract, and all government branches have a 3% HUBZone budgetary target.
Common Census is now collaborating with HighLight Health, an innovative new product that helps employers with fully insured and self-insured medical plans lower claims.
During the COVID pandemic we have moved our office to the cloud. This gives staff the ability to work 100% remote while at the same time adding full scalability and redundancy to our platform through cloud services.
As of 1/1/2021 Common Census no longer supports offline enrollments. This change will allow our team to focus on improvements to our online benefits platform www.CommonBenefits.com and related technologies.

https://forum.commonbenefits.com is now live. Please join the community of Common Benefits Users. This user forum is moderated by Common Census staff, and contains knowledgebase articles written by the Common Census team as well as user-submitted questions and articles.
A downloadable application has been created for forum.commonbenefits.com. When navigating to the forum you can select the square icon in the browser address bar to install the standalone application.
Our administrative dashboard now includes enrollment progress at a glance for all self-service enrollment sessions.
CommonBilling ACH bank drafts can now be scheduled for Monthly or Annual billing.
CommonCensus will no longer support offline enrollments using ND Enroller as of 1/1/2021. This change will allow our team to focus on improvements to our online benefits platform CommonBenefits and related technologies.
New notification system allows users to configure triggers for automated emails to employees

Operations at our company continue without interruption. Most employees are remote, but the office is open pursuant to Maine Governor’s declaration that “insurance” is an essential business. Our operations are essential for the maintenance of information vital to continuation of insurance programs that service over 1M lives.
Common Census Benefits Operating System® introduced a new layout to our standard data export tools. Common Benefits, the platform powering both our popular ZeroPEPM™ distribution with brokers and carriers. BenefitsUSA™, available directly to employers also includes this new Cross-Tabbed Export capability. Cross-Tabbed Exports spread multiple records across a single row of export data. An example of this would be a payroll file that contains one row per employee, with payroll deductions for multiple benefits distributed in a series of columns.
Cross-Tabbed Exports are available for the following standard export datasets including: coverage records, dependents and enrollments (partial or full).

The Corona/COVID-19 emergency has not caused any service interruptions or operational delays at Common Census. Our data is hosted in a HITRUST environment on Microsoft Azure, again with no interruption or delays. Our staff is all accessible (remotely) but you will reach them just as you have before (same email, same phone and same hours of operation.)
Common Census deployed 2 factor login authentication for administrative users.
Flexible spending accounts improved with Year to date contribution calculation for all 53 payroll modes.
Introduced payroll scheduling tool to reflect plan year balances for all payroll modes.

ZeroPEPM rules simplified
Common Census deploys our largest case ever. Currently this national PEO has over 437,000 records on the system. This is possible because our architecture supports an unlimited number of locations, divisions and classes. In this situation, each PEO “company” is made into a separate division. HR functions for each division are isolated. This capability can be implemented based on class and location or any permutation of these database selections. This brings our total lives managed to approximately 1.5M.
Mass Mutual Critical Illness and Accident plans implemented

ZeroPEPM has joined forces with online shopping in the form of Company Payroll Store (CPS). CPS allows employees to purchase household and personal items with the benefit of paying for those purchases over time using payroll deductions.
CPS is a voluntary company benefit program that costs nothing for your organization to implement. Employees are provided a quality, customized online shopping experience with payments made through payroll deductions. A portion of all sales then go back to your company to fund additional employee programs or charities.
MeMD joins ZeroPEPM portfolio. MeMD enables members to connect with board-certified healthcare providers and licensed therapists over the computer, mobile device or phone for treatment of common illnesses, injuries and behavioral health concerns
Discovery Benefits joins ZeroPEPM portfolio. Discovery provides administration of health savings accounts, flexible benefits, COBRA, commuter benefits and health reimbursement arrangements and has a presence in all 50 states.
Adminahealth joins ZeroPEPM portfolio offering a variety of billing solutions including ACH, Credit Card, partial split deposits and traditional payroll deduction.
Common Census completes migration to Microsoft Azure Cloud, a HITRUST, scalable environment. The transition is completed with not a single interruption of service to our approximately 1.1M lives on the system.
MetLIfe Voluntary Term Life and separate stand alone Voluntary AD&D added