23 Feb Designing Your HRA or Flex Contributions to Meet Affordability Requirements

Posted at 10:00h in ClearPath blog, Compliance News, Employee Benefits, Health Care Reform

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Original post ubabenefits.com An Applicable Large Employer (ALE) that offers minimum essential coverage (MEC) to substantially all of its full-time employees may still owe penalties if the coverage it offers is inadequate because it is not “affordable” or it does not provide “minimum value.” Coverage is...

15 Feb Minimum Value: HRA Contributions and Flex Credits

Posted at 05:00h in ACA, ClearPath blog, PPACA

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued a final rule that clarifies various topics relating to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and premium tax credit eligibility provisions. ...

26 Oct Cafeteria Plans: How to Handle Participant Contributions

Posted at 13:43h in ACA, ClearPath blog, Employee Benefits

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Employees are given the opportunity to select the benefits they want, just like an individual standing in the cafeteria line at lunch. Read more...

14 Sep Simplifying the Administration of Cafeteria Plan Election Changes

Posted at 08:00h in ClearPath blog, Employee Benefits, IRS

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Election change requests are the most rule-centric item encountered in the day-to-day administration of a cafeteria plan. Most cafeteria plans, although not required to do so, allow election changes to the fullest extent permitted by law. Read more here...

24 Jul New ACA Implications for Cafeteria Plans: Change in Status and Changing Employee Elections

Posted at 08:16h in ClearPath blog, Employee Benefits

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Cafeteria plans, or plans governed by IRS Code Section 125, allow employers to help employees pay for expenses such as health insurance with pre-tax dollars. Employees are given a choice between a taxable benefit (cash) and two or more specified pre-tax qualified benefits, for example,...

19 Jun IRS Provides Guidance on Health FSA $2,500 Limits

Posted at 02:00h in Default

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IRS provided guidance on the effective date of the $2,500 limit on salary reduction contributions to "Health FSA's"...

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23 Feb Designing Your HRA or Flex Contributions to Meet Affordability Requirements

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14 Sep Simplifying the Administration of Cafeteria Plan Election Changes

24 Jul New ACA Implications for Cafeteria Plans: Change in Status and Changing Employee Elections

19 Jun IRS Provides Guidance on Health FSA $2,500 Limits

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