October 19, 2007

Domestic-Partner Benefits Become More Common

By MARTIN VAN DER WERF

More colleges are offering health-care benefits to employees' domestic partners, whether of the same or opposite sex, and more institutions are looking to cut costs by offering a new form of coverage, popularly known as "consumer-driven health-care plans."

Those are among the findings of a new survey of benefits and health-care costs conducted by the College & University Professional Association for Human Resources.

According to the survey, 40 percent of colleges and

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