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- Can an employee make a mid-year cafeteria plan election change on account of financial hardship?
- From the March 11, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: One of our employees elected to contribute $2,000 to his health FSA for 2010 to help pay for some anticipated dental work. He just bought a new house and now he says he can’t afford to ...
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- How are employees taxed if they pay for group term life insurance through a cafeteria plan?
- From the February 25, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company would like to offer a group term life insurance benefit to employees, but we can’t afford to pay any of the premiums. Could our employees pay the premiums for their coverage through our cafeteria plan? ...
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- Can our DCAP reimburse dependent care expenses if the participant doesn't have the care provider's taxpayer identification number (TIN)?
- From the January 28, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: One of our employees, who participates in our DCAP, has told us that the woman who provides day care for his children won’t give him her taxpayer identification number (TIN). Can we reimburse his claim for expenses ...
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- What's the status of the 2007 proposed cafeteria plan regulations?
- From the December 23, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: We know that the IRS issued proposed cafeteria plan regulations in 2007. What’s the status of these regulations? Are employers required to comply with them, and if so, when? ANSWER: The IRS has yet to publish final ...
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- How should we handle election change requests that are made after open enrollment has ended and before the plan year has begun?
- From the December 03, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company has a calendar-year cafeteria plan with a premium payment feature, a health FSA, and a DCAP. Shortly after we closed our open enrollment for the 2010 plan year, several of our employees asked if they could ...
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- Can members of our company's board of directors participate in our cafeteria plan?
- From the October 29, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: I’ve been asked whether members of our company’s board of directors can participate in our cafeteria plan. Can we allow this? ANSWER: Generally, no, although there is a special rule for certain “dual status&#...
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- In what order should reimbursements be paid when an employer offers both an HRA and a health FSA?
- From the September 24, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company will set up an HRA and a health FSA on January 1 that will cover the same employees and pay the same types of medical care expenses. In what order should reimbursements be paid from these two ...
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- Are our benefit plans affected by state laws recognizing same-sex marriage?
- From the September 17, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: I’ve been reading about all the states that have recently recognized same-sex marriage or given spousal equivalent status to registered domestic partners. Our company has locations in some of those states. We already provide health benefits ...
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- Where can our health FSA participants use debit cards to pay for medical care expenses?
- From the August 20, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company is thinking about implementing a debit card program for participants in our health FSA. I understand that IRS guidance restricts use of these cards to certain merchants. Where can our health FSA participants use debit cards to ...
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- Does an increase in the cost of group health coverage trigger special enrollment rights?
- From the August 06, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: One of our employees has employee-only coverage under our calendar-year major medical plan and her spouse is enrolled under his employer’s plan which, until recently, paid 90% of the cost of employee-only coverage. The ...
