California Creative Benefits Produces Benefit Statements with Fringe Facts Communicator to Help Organizations Communicate the Value of Benefits.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Benefit Software Inc. (www.bsiweb.com), the leader in benefit communications technology, is collaborating with California Creative Benefits Insurance Services, Inc. (www.ccbisi.com), a broker of group insurance services, to enhance value-added services to CCBISI clients. California Creative Benefits turned to Benefit Software (BSI) for value-added communications solutions since BSI offers full service broker support using either traditional paper based statements or web-based solutions.

Eric Peters, President of California Creative Benefits, liked the idea of producing personalized employee benefit statements for one of his most important accounts but wanted to keep the costs to a minimum. He found that Fringe Facts(R) Communicator was his best choice to produce high quality, high impact statements while keeping this very valuable service affordable.

"Using Fringe Facts Communicator, we produced personalized employee benefit statements in just a few weeks for a client with 4,000 benefit eligible employees. We offered this service at a time when the Company was making benefit changes and wanted to illustrate the dollar value of the increased contribution. Over the next year we plan to provide other clients with printed benefit statements, online benefit statements and online benefit enrollment from Benefit Software," said Peters.

Mr. Peters also said, "California Creative Benefits has a long standing relationship with BSI. The collective team's technical expertise, continual growth in the marketplace and flexibility allows California Creative Benefits to provide clients with superior products that cannot be matched by other vendors. In terms of value-added services BSI helps us set California Creative Benefits apart from other brokers."

Benefit Statements Give Employees a Better Understanding of Their Benefits

According to the recently released MetLife 2003 Employee Benefits Trend Study, less than one-third (32%) of today's workers are satisfied with the benefits provided by their employer -- a decrease of nine percentage points from one year ago. Additionally, among employees who are highly satisfied with their benefits, roughly two-thirds say that their benefits are an important reason they stay with their current employer (69%), are satisfied with their job (64%), and feel strong loyalty toward their employer (64%).

When you combine the above statistics with the fact that most employers are paying roughly 40% of base salaries in benefits you can easily see why the majority of employers are desperate to communicate the high cost of employer paid benefits to their employees.

William Smith, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Benefit Software reports, "We are pleased that brokers like Mr. Peters are aggressively attacking their client's communications needs by partnering with Benefit Software. We have affordable print and online solutions for almost any budget while giving our clients outstanding customer service and technical support."

About California Creative Benefits Insurance Services, Inc.

Since 1991, California Creative Benefits has been offering group insurance, business insurance, and individual insurance to clients of 2-5,000 employees. www.ccbisi.com.

About Benefit Software Inc.

Benefit Software Inc. delivers advanced PC and web based employee benefit communications solutions through insurance agents, brokers and third party administrators. www.bsiweb.com.