Serving  Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows, Greater Vancouver, Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada

As of October 17th, 2018, recreational use of cannabis in Canada became legal. If your workplace does not have a drug and alcohol policy in place, now is the time to implement one. Benefits By Design (BBD) has created a document that can help answer some of your questions when it comes to the new cannabis legalization laws and also help you create a drug and alcohol policy for your company. This protects you, your company and the employees rights so everyone can continue to h

Reference: Great West Life - GroupLine Newsletter May 2018 As of December 3, 2017, the Government Employment Insurance (EI) amended their policy to allow parents the option to extend their parental benefits. As well, Plan Members of a Group Insurance Plan have options as far as their Employment Group Insurance (in the below reference, the "Plan Member" is the Employee and the "Plan Sponsor" is the Employer: As per the Employment Standards Act of British Columbia "The plan me

Happy New Year! It's 2018 and time for another round of "What's your New Year's Resolution?" Whether you are already making strides towards it or you don't believe in these resolutions to begin with, it never really hurts trying to evaluate your life and maybe even looking at what you'd like to improve on. We, at Avanti Planning Group, want to try and be there to help you any way we can, if it's your New Year's Resolution or not. Here are some common goals and how we can prov

Did you know that if a medical emergency happens when you’re travelling out-of-country, provincial health care coverage pays for less than 1