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  1. Breast Pumps Used for General Health Are Not Medical Care Expenses
    From the April 09, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    This information letter responds to a letter recommending that the IRS allow breast pumps and related equipment to be reimbursed under a health FSA. The information letter explains that health FSA funds generally must be used for medical care, which ...
    [IRS Information Letter 2009-0033 (Mar. 4, 2009)]
  2. DOL Delays Final Investment Advice Regulations for 60 Days to Allow for Legal and Policy Review
    From the March 26, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    The DOL has decided to delay for 60 days the effective and applicability date of its recently published final regulations regarding investment advice for participants and beneficiaries of individual account plans. Those regulations, originally scheduled to be effective March 23, ...
    [Investment Advice—Participants and Beneficiaries, Final Rule; Delay of Effective Date and Applicability Date, 74 Fed. Reg. 11847 (Mar. 20, 2009)]
  3. IRS Discusses Deductibility of Nursing Home Care for Individual With Alzheimer's Disease
    From the March 19, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    This Information Letter addresses the deductibility of expenses paid to care for an individual with Alzheimer’s disease who was in an assisted care program. Under Code Section 213, expenses paid for medical care of the taxpayer, spouse, or ...
    [IRS Information Letter 2009-0010 (Dec. 18, 2008)]
  4. CMS Delays MSP Mandatory Reporting for HRAs and Provides Other Guidance for Group Health Plans
    From the March 05, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    CMS has updated the User Guide for group health plans on its Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) mandatory reporting website. Like the earlier versions of the guide (see our article at http://www.ebia.com/WeeklyArchives/GHPM/Statutes/19626 (Premium Access ...
    [MMSEA Section 111 MSP Mandatory Reporting GHP User Guide, Version 2.1 (Mar. 4, 2009)]
  5. DOL Proposes to Delay Final Investment Advice Regulations, Requests Comments on Delay and Content of Rules
    From the February 05, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    The DOL has proposed a 60-day delay in the effective and applicability date of its recently published final regulations regarding investment advice for participants and beneficiaries of individual account plans. Those regulations implement the statutory prohibited transaction exemption for &#...
    [Investment Advice—Participants and Beneficiaries, Notice of Proposed Extension of Effective Date and Applicability Date; Request for Public Comments on Legal and Policy Questions Relating to the Final Rule, 74 Fed. Reg. 6007 (Feb. 4, 2009)]
  6. IRS Releases 2009 Reporting Forms and Instructions for HSA, Archer MSA, and Medicare Advantage MSA Trustees and Custodians
    From the January 29, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    The IRS has released Forms 5498-SA and 1099-SA for the 2009 tax year, and their combined Instructions. Trustees and custodians of HSAs, Archer MSAs, and Medicare Advantage MSAs must use Form 5498-SA to report contributions to (and ...
    [Form 5498-SA (HSA, Archer MSA, or Medicare Advantage MSA Information) (2009); Form 1099-SA (Distributions From an HSA, Archer MSA, or Medicare Advantage MSA) (2009); Instructions for Forms 1099-SA and 5498-SA (2009)]
  7. DOL Issues Final Investment Advice Regulations That Include Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption
    From the January 22, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    The DOL has issued final regulations that implement the statutory prohibited transaction exemption for “eligible investment advice arrangements” added by the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA) and include a prohibited transaction class exemption (PTE) that expands the ...
    [Investment Advice—Participants and Beneficiaries, DOL Reg. Secs. 2550.408g-1 and 2550.408g-2, 74 Fed. Reg. 3822 (Jan. 21, 2009)]
  8. White House Asks Agencies to Delay Publication, Effective Dates of Regulations Pending Review
    From the January 22, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    On Inauguration Day, President Obama’s Chief of Staff issued a memorandum to executive department agencies and heads, advising them of the President’s plan for managing the Federal regulatory process so as to give his appointees and ...
    [Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies, 74 Fed. Reg. 4435 (Jan. 26, 2009)]
  9. CMS Updates Group Health Plan User Guide for MSP Mandatory Reporting
    From the January 08, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    CMS has updated the User Guide for group health plans on its Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) mandatory reporting website. Like the earlier version of the guide (see our article at http://www.ebia.com/WeeklyArchives/GHPM/Statutes/19561 (Premium Access ...
    [MMSEA Section 111 MSP Mandatory Reporting GHP User Guide, Version 2.0 (Dec. 17, 2008)]
  10. IRS Releases 2008 Version of Publication 969 on HSAs, HRAs, Health FSAs, and MSAs
    From the January 08, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    The IRS has released an updated version of Publication 969 (Health Savings Accounts and Other Tax-Favored Health Plans) for use in preparing 2008 tax returns. This publication summarizes information about HSAs, HRAs, health FSAs, Archer MSAs, and Medicare Advantage ...
    [IRS Publication 969 (Health Savings Accounts and Other Tax-Favored Health Plans (for 2008 Tax Returns))]

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