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Making a List, Checking it Twice
It’s that time of year when boys and girls start making their lists for the holidays, but we in the employee benefits world make a very different kind of list. In the rapidly changing world of employee benefits and executive compensation law, a checklist can be particularly helpful to make sure important issues do not fall through the cracks. Each year we publish an executive compensation checklist, a health and welfare plan checklist, and a qualified retirement plan checklist to help individuals stay apprised of changes in the law, changes that they might need to make to their employee benefits plans, and various notice requirements. Read More ›
Posted in Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation, Health & Welfare Plans, Health Care Reform, Qualified Retirement Plans
| Tagged Checklist, employee benefits, end of the year, end-year, Executive Compensation, health and welfare, qualified plan, to do list
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You Received a Health Insurance Marketplace Notice from HHS – Now What?
Take a deep breath. The HHS Health Insurance Marketplace Notice (the “Notice”) may seem to be a nuisance, but it does not necessarily mean that you will be subject to employer shared responsibility penalties.
First, the IRS, not HHS, assesses employer shared responsibility penalties, and the IRS does so only after it provides employers with: (1) a “certification” that one or more employees received a premium tax credit; and (2) an opportunity to respond to the certification.
Second, an individual may have incorrectly reported on his application that he was eligible for a premium tax credit (or cost-sharing reductions) because: (1) he did not receive an offer of health coverage from you; (2) he did receive an offer of health coverage from you, but it was unaffordable or it failed to provide minimum value, or (3) he was in a waiting period and was unable to enroll in health care coverage. Read More ›
Posted in Employee Benefits, Health & Welfare Plans, Health Care Reform
| Tagged Checklist, employer shared responsibility, HHS, Insurance Marketplace, Insurance Marketplace Notice, IRS, Notice, premium tax credit
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Check(list) It Out!
Who doesn’t love a good checklist? I know I do.
In the rapidly changing world of employee benefits and executive compensation law, checklists can be particularly helpful to make sure important issues don’t fall through the cracks. To help folks stay apprised of changes in the law, changes they might need to make to their employee benefit plans, and various notice requirements, each year we publish a health and welfare plan checklist, a qualified plan checklist, and an executive compensation checklist.
We just published the last of the three checklists. In case you missed them, links to each checklist are below. Read More ›
Posted in Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation, Health & Welfare Plans, Health Care Reform, Qualified Retirement Plans
| Tagged Checklist
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