by stephenroth | May 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
You’ve reached the Lockton Benefits Blog, an information resource maintained by Lockton’s Compliance Consulting team from 2015 to 2022. For the latest information about ERISA and other employee benefits topics, visit our Compliance Consulting webpage on...
by Ed Fensholt | November 11, 2020 | Compliance Services, Health Reform / ACA, Uncategorized
As if 2020 has not already wrought enough chaos, many employers are finding that their medical plan eligibility rules are about to add insult to their employees’ injuries triggered by furloughs, layoffs or reduced work hours in 2020. Those reduced hours in 2020 may...
by Suzanne Bach | November 2, 2020 | Compliance Services, The Coronavirus, Uncategorized
Federal regulators have issued rules supplying the first interpretive gloss on the group health plan coverage mandate, imposed by Congressional legislation last spring, to provide coronavirus vaccines with no cost sharing. Consistent with the legislation, the new...
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...
