APPARATUS AND METHOD OF COMPOSING A PLAN OF FLEXIBLE BENEFITS

摘要

There is disclosed a method and apparatus for devising the financial aspects of a plan of benefits for a given population of employess in accordance with goals set by an employer (154) of the employees. This invention enters data into a memory (20) of a computer system reflective of the employees (20A), the costs of the benefits and the employers goals. Next, variables are defined and entered into the memory (20) reflecting the costs of the benefits, and a set of relationships is constructed of the cost variables in a manner to constrain the cost variables in accordance with the plan benefits, and a set of relationships is constructed of the cost variables in a manner to constrain the cost variables in accordance with the plan of benefits. Finally, the set of relationships is processed in the computer system to provide at least one set of solutions of the cost variables.