by Ed Fensholt | October 5, 2020 | Compliance Services, Reporting and Disclosure, Tax Issues, The Coronavirus, Uncategorized
The IRS has again (as it has in past years) extended the deadline to furnish Forms 1095-C to Affordable Care Act (ACA) full-time employees. The Service has moved the deadline to furnish the forms for 2020 from Jan. 31 to March 2, 2021. The deadlines for filing those...
by Lisa L. Carlson | August 27, 2020 | Compliance Services, FMLA, The Coronavirus, Uncategorized
Updated Aug. 28, 2020 with additional DOL guidance released after original publication With the new school year upon us, parents are faced with new child care concerns due to the continued risk of COVID-19 transmission and varying approaches to that risk by different...
by Suzanne Bach | August 10, 2020 | Compliance Services, DOL, Paid Leave Laws, The Coronavirus, Uncategorized
Government contractors performing work on contracts governed by the Service Contract Act (SCA) or Davis-Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA) received some welcome news this week when the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (DOL-WHD) issued guidance exempting...
by Rory Akers, JD | July 20, 2020 | Compliance Services, Health Reform / ACA
So few health plans remain “grandfathered” under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that many benefits professionals may have forgotten there was once a time when most health plans dodged, at least temporarily, several key ACA-imposed benefit mandates due to their...
by Jay Kirschbaum | July 15, 2020 | Compliance Services, Employer Mandate, Reporting and Disclosure
The IRS has alarmed many employers over the last few years by sending 226-J letters assessing potential penalties for alleged violations of the employer mandate under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). While in most cases the employers have been able to dodge those...
by Ed Fensholt | June 16, 2020 | Compliance Services, Health Reimbursement Arrangements, Health Savings Accounts
But the rules acknowledge adverse implications for HSA eligibility The IRS has proposed regulations that would treat direct primary care arrangement (DPCA) fees as medical care or medical insurance, opening the door to their reimbursement from health reimbursement...
