Since we assume if you are reading this that you are an avid reader of our blog, you undoubtedly know that all large employers have to send new IRS Form 1095-C to their full-time employees by March 31st. See our prior post for more detail about the delay. If you’re an employer that sponsors a self-funded plan, you have to ...
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Under federal law, employers are not required to offer transportation benefits or have a qualified transportation program. Several major metro areas have local ordinances that do require employers to provide these benefits for employees working in those cities. Some cities require that employers have a written plan document ...
David Pixley
Currently, the Internal Revenue Service uses a cycle system to stagger the submission deadlines for employers seeking a favorable determination as to the qualified status of their individually designed retirement plans. Plan cycles are determined by the last digit of the plan sponsor’s employer identification number (EIN).
Global employers face unique challenges in complying with the ACA. Employers that only employ U.S. citizens working abroad, being paid from foreign sources, are likely not subject to the ACA mandates. Employers employing at least 50 full-time employees (or full-time equivalents), working in the United States, are subject to the ...
At the 11th hour, the IRS announced that it is extending the deadlines for the new ACA reporting requirements. Instead of large and/or self-funded employers having to distribute a Form 1095-C to all of their full-time employees and employees enrolled in a self-funded health plan by February 1, 2016, employers now have ...
David Pixley
Many employers provide their employees with benefits through a section 125 or cafeteria plan. Some employers use the plan to allow employees to pay premiums on a pre-tax basis while others provide participants with the flexibility to utilize employer “flex credits” to select from a variety of benefits on a pretax basis that ...
The Affordable Care Act includes a nondeductible 40% excise tax on high-cost health plans that is scheduled to become effective in 2018. This provision has been called the Cadillac Tax, but it did not take long for everyone to realize that future premium increases would quickly result in the Cadillac Tax applying to most health plans. ...
There have been many articles speculating as to what the pay or play employer mandate penalties would be for 2015. The ACA provides that both the $2,000 penalty for failing to offer minimum essential coverage to all of your full-time employees and the $3,000 penalty for failing to offer minimum value, affordable coverage to a ...
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Recently, there has been a lot of buzz about the new D.C. ordinance, which requires certain employers to establish a transportation fringe benefit program. Several metro areas already have similar ordinances and the trend is expected to continue. When formulating your transportation plan, be mindful of some potential gaps in the ...
As we so often discover in this line of work, the answer is maybe. An employee assistance plan (“EAP”) may be designed to provide a wide range of services to employees to ease the anxiety of working life – and ideally increase workplace productivity in the process. Most EAPs are designed to address specific issues (e.g ...