Today, Stride, the leader in portable benefits technology, unveiled its annual open enrollment research, signaling that the vast majority of the millions of individuals in the market for ACA health coverage this year lack critical information necessary to make informed and confident decisions about their insurance for the upcoming year.

These findings come ahead of the 2025 open enrollment season, which begins on November 1—a crucial time for over 60 million independent workers in America, as well as millions of small business employees who do not receive health insurance benefits from their employers. The research also is timely given over 21 million people are currently enrolled in an ACA plan.

Today, Stride Health, the category leader in portable benefits, released the report Bridging the Benefits Gap: Uncovering the Financial Goals and Challenges of Workers with Limited Benefits. The findings, which are a result of an online survey conducted on behalf of Stride Health by Mastercard, highlight the financial challenges faced by many of the over 60 million independent workers in America.

This report showcases results of an online survey conducted on behalf of Stride Health by Mastercard, highlighting the financial challenges faced by many of the over 60 million independent workers in America.

Stride teamed up with Homebase to help business owners better support employees with access to health, dental, and vision coverage through Stride's portable benefits platform.

We’re teaming up with Roadie, a UPS Company and a logistics management and crowdsourced delivery platform, to provide comprehensive support to independent drivers nationwide.

On the heels of last week’s exciting announcement, w’re launching the Stride Contributions program in Utah, following the state’s passage of new Portable Benefit Plan legislation (SB-233), which creates opportunities for companies to extend more benefits to 1099 workers.

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that we’re expanding our portable benefits suite with a first-of-its-kind innovation, Stride Save, to help independent workers set aside money for savings and essential benefits.