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    Section 127 · Permanent under OBBBA 2025

    The only benefit where every dollar you spend lands in your employee's hands.

    Employer-sponsored student loan repayment, fully managed under IRC Section 127. Up to $5,250 per employee, per year — tax-free. Tailored pricing, launches in 24 hours, works with any payroll.

    $5,250
    Tax-free per employee, per year
    26%
    Reduction in turnover among enrolled employees*
    24hr
    Average time to launch

    *Fidelity Investments, Student Debt Direct client analysis, 2023–2024. Individual results vary.

    Direct-to-servicer custodial escrow
    Encrypted in transit and at rest
    Financial-industry-grade data practices
    Section 127 plan document included

    14% of U.S. employers now offer student loan repayment — up from 4% in 2019. You can be the one that wins talent from the other 86%.

    Source: International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, 2024 Employee Benefits Survey.

    Employee Experience

    Your team will actually use this

    Enrollment takes under 5 minutes. No paperwork, no awkward HR conversations. Employees connect their loans and watch the balance drop.

    9:41
    BenefitPlus

    Good morning, Jessica

    Enrolled
    Loans Linked

    Your Employer Benefit

    AC
    Acme Corp

    Total Contributed

    $3,600

    Since Sep 2024


    This Year (2026)

    $400

    of $2,400 annual benefit


    Est. Tax Savings

    $1,402

    Based on federal + CA state taxes

    The Smart Math

    Salary raise vs. student loan repayment.

    Same $5,250 of employer spend. Two very different outcomes for the employee.

    Traditional Raise
    Gross raise$5,250
    − Federal income tax (22%)−$1,155
    − FICA (7.65%)−$402
    − State tax (~5%)−$263
    Employee Takes Home
    $3,430
    BenefitPlus SLR
    Section 127 contribution$5,250
    Federal income tax$0
    Employer FICA$0
    State tax (most states)$0
    Applied to Employee's Loans
    $5,250
    Same employer spend, 53% more value to the employee. That is the math behind every BenefitPlus program.
    +53%
    Why BenefitPlus

    A fully managed Section 127 platform. We handle everything.

    Plan document, compliance, payroll integration, direct-to-servicer disbursement, employee experience — end-to-end.

    Tax-free on both sides

    Up to $5,250 per year is excluded from W-2 Box 1 wages and FICA-exempt for both the employer and the employee within the Section 127 cap.

    Compliance handled

    We generate the Section 127 plan document, run annual nondiscrimination testing, and provide W-2 reporting support.

    Direct-to-servicer

    Funds route from your payroll into a custodial escrow account, then straight to each employee's loan servicer as additional principal.

    Works with any payroll

    ADP, Gusto, Rippling, Paychex, Paylocity, QuickBooks, Workday — read-only APIs where available, flat-file uploads otherwise.

    Works with your payroll stack

    ADPGustoRipplingPaychexPaylocityQuickBooksWorkday
    Maurice

    Meet Maurice. Your team's 24/7 expert on everything Section 127.

    Maurice is a trained student loan and benefits expert, built into every page of the platform. Your employees can ask him anything — tax treatment, enrollment steps, servicer edge cases, SECURE 2.0 interactions, payment timing, W-2 questions — and get a clear, accurate answer the moment they ask.

    New in 2026: Maurice speaks your team's language.

    Student loan debt doesn't speak only English. Neither does Maurice. Every conversation, explanation, and help article is available in 25+ languages.

    For employers in healthcare, skilled trades, hospitality, manufacturing, and any workforce where English is a second language, this is the difference between a benefit that gets used and a benefit that sits in the handbook.

    EnglishEspañolFrançaisDeutschItalianoPortuguêsNederlandsРусскийPolskiTürkçeالعربيةעבריתहिन्दीবাংলা简体中文繁體中文日本語한국어Tiếng ViệtภาษาไทยBahasa IndonesiaFilipinoSvenskaУкраїнськаΕλληνικά+ more

    Answers in plain language, not legalese. Employees get real answers, not a “please contact HR” deflection.

    Trained exclusively on Section 127, SECURE 2.0 §110, IRS Publication 15-B, and BenefitPlus operational policy. Grounded in authoritative sources — designed to avoid guessing on benefit rules.

    Available 24/7 across every page of the employee and employer portals.

    Never replaces your HR team — takes the 80% of repeatable questions off their desk so they can handle the ones that need human judgment.

    Meet Maurice
    Marketing Suite

    A benefit nobody uses isn't a benefit. We make sure yours gets used.

    Most employee benefits fail at the same step: rollout. HR launches the program, sends one email, and watches enrollment stall at 18%. BenefitPlus comes with a full co-branded marketing suite — so the day you sign up, your team has every asset they need to drive enrollment, built in your brand, ready to ship.

    What's included, branded with your logo and colors:

    Launch announcement emailthe “we have big news” all-staff email, written to drive same-day signups.

    Employee FAQ one-pagerthe ten questions every employee asks about Section 127, answered in plain English.

    Open enrollment flyerprint-ready, designed for break rooms, bulletin boards, and new-hire packets.

    Intranet, Slack, and Teams copyshort, medium, and long-form announcement variants.

    Enrollment reminder email sequencea four-email drip to convert employees who didn't sign up on day one.

    All-hands presentation slidea single clean slide, drop-in-ready for the next company meeting.

    Manager talking pointsone page. For when a direct report asks their manager, “wait, is this real?”

    New-hire onboarding insertso every future hire learns about the benefit the day they sign their offer.

    Short explainer video90 seconds, your logo, your brand colors.

    All assets are delivered in editable formats (PDF, PowerPoint, Google Slides, Canva templates). You get them the day your contract starts.

    See the marketing suite
    How It Works

    Up and running in days, not months.

    BenefitPlus handles compliance, payments, reporting, and employee communications.

    01

    Set Up Your Plan

    Configure eligibility rules, contribution amounts, and who receives the benefit.

    02

    Employees Enroll

    Connect loans through the encrypted portal or upload a MyStudentData file. Under five minutes. In their language.

    03

    Payments Flow

    Contributions route directly to each servicer every pay period as additional principal.

    04

    Track & Report

    Real-time dashboards, year-end nondiscrimination testing, and W-2 reporting support.

    ROI Calculator

    See what BenefitPlus saves you

    Adjust the sliders to match your organization, or choose an industry below for pre-filled estimates.

    Eligible Employees
    Full-time staff who'd participate
    100
    51,000
    Annual Contribution / Employee
    Up to $5,250 is tax-free
    $5,250
    $500$10,000
    $5,250 tax-free
    Participation Rate
    Industry avg: 60-80%
    75%
    20%100%
    Current Annual Turnover
    BLS avg ~20% for workers 25-34
    25%
    5%50%

    Beyond the Numbers

    Value this calculator can't capture

    Competitive recruiting advantage in a market where only 8% of employers offer this benefit
    Improved employee financial wellness and reduced debt-related stress
    Stronger employer brand as a company that invests in its people
    Higher employee engagement and productivity from reduced financial stress
    Retention of institutional knowledge when experienced employees stay longer
    Tax-free benefit that employees actually use, with enrollment in under 5 minutes

    Annual Program Impact

    75 employees
    Total Value Created
    $478,560
    Tax + retention combined
    Payroll Tax Savings
    $30,122
    7.65% FICA avoided
    Employee Tax Savings
    $98,438
    ~25% marginal rate saved
    Retention Savings
    $350,000
    ~7 fewer departures
    Total Annual Program Cost
    $393,750
    75 participants
    Net ROI+22%
    Cost: $394KValue: $479K
    Effective Cost / Employee
    vs. $5,250 gross
    $4,848

    Get your personalized savings report

    We'll email you a detailed breakdown based on your inputs above.

    Estimates are for illustrative purposes only and do not constitute financial, tax, or legal advice.
    Individual results may vary.

    FAQ

    Questions HR teams ask us first.

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    Pricing is tailored to your team size and rollout plan. Whether you're 5 employees or 5,000, we walk through the structure on a 30-minute call.