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- Can our company's health FSA reimburse a doctor's monthly fee that is payable whether or not the patients visit the office?
- From the February 16, 2006 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: A participant in our company’s health FSA told us that her doctor has started charging his patients a monthly fee that is payable whether or not the patients visit the office-there is no additional charge for ...
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- Can our DCAP reimburse expenses for the care of a child who will turn 13 later in the plan year?
- From the February 02, 2006 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: A participant in our company’s DCAP, which is offered under a cafeteria plan, has a child who will turn 13 during 2006. She and her husband both work full-time and the child attends an after-school ...
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- Can our employee make a mid-year election change when his spouse's employer increases the deductible under its health insurance plan?
- From the January 26, 2006 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our employee and his spouse have major medical coverage through the spouse’s employer. The spouse has been paying for her share of premiums under the other employer’s cafeteria plan. The other employer recently changed its ...
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- What do all those acronyms in employee benefits stand for?
- From the December 22, 2005 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Everybody in the employee benefits field uses acronyms like CDHC, EAP, ADA, USERRA, etc. What do these and other employee benefits acronyms stand for? ANSWER: Here’s a list of common acronyms primarily used in our Cafeteria Plans, ...
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- What nondiscrimination tests apply to cafeteria plans, health FSAs, and DCAPs?
- From the October 20, 2005 EBIA Weekly
- Question: Earlier this year, our company adopted a cafeteria plan so that our employees could pay their share of the premiums for health insurance coverage with pre-tax salary reductions. We are now thinking about adding a health FSA and ...
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- Can an employee change a health FSA election mid-year when he or she is prevented from having the medical care that was anticipated when the election was made?
- From the August 04, 2005 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: I administer our company's health FSA. Recently I've had several requests for mid-year health FSA election changes with the same thing in common--the employee wants to reduce contributions because something happened after enrollment that prevented ...
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- Does a 10% pay cut entitle employees to change their elections for health FSA or health insurance benefits?
- From the July 28, 2005 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company has a Section 125 cafeteria plan. We've asked our employees to take a 10% cut in pay. Will this pay cut allow our employees to make mid-year changes to their health FSA or health insurance ...
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- Should we file our Form 5500s electronically?
- From the June 09, 2005 EBIA Weekly
- Please see this updated Question of the Week: http://www.ebia.com/WeeklyArchives/ERISA/Questions/19380....
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- What expenses can HRAs and HSAs reimburse?
- From the May 26, 2005 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: We are familiar with the rules regarding the types of expenses that are reimbursable under health flexible spending arrangements (health FSAs). Can health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) and health savings accounts (HSAs) reimburse those same types of expenses? ANSWER: Yes. ...
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- Can our DCAP reimburse a participant's claim for a "late fee"?
- From the April 28, 2005 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: One of our DCAP participants has submitted a reimbursement claim that includes a $20 "late fee." This charge is in addition to the participant's regular monthly day-care fee for his child and appears as a separate entry ...
