EBIA Weekly Archives - Cafeteria Plans
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- Health Care Reform Reconciliation Bill Is Signed Into Law
- From the April 01, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- On March 30, 2010, the President signed into law the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (Reconciliation Act), which makes significant changes to some of the health care reform provisions under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) (see ...
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- Is a self-administered health FSA with fewer than 50 participants required to comply with HIPAA's privacy and security requirements?
- From the March 25, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company has 45 employees, all of whom are eligible for participation in the health FSA, which we administer in-house. Is our health FSA required to comply with the privacy and security requirements under HIPAA? ANSWER: No, but ...
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- New EFAST2 FAQs Address Email Notification for Electronic Credentials; Midnight Filing Deadline
- From the March 25, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- The DOL has added three new questions to its FAQs on EFAST2, the all-electronic filing system required for 2009 plan year filings (due in 2010 for most plans). (For information about other topics addressed in previous EFAST2 FAQs, see ...
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- Health Care Reform Is Signed Into Law, Bringing Major Changes for Employer-Provided Health Coverage
- From the March 25, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- Historic health care reform legislation was signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) brings far-reaching changes for employer-provided health coverage. (As we write this article, Congress is ...
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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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- Value of Nondependent Domestic Partner's Retiree Coverage Is Taxable to Employee
- From the February 25, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- This private letter ruling addresses the tax treatment of contributions required to pre-fund retiree health coverage under a union-negotiated health plan. The contributions for each employee consisted of (1) mandatory (i.e., nonelective) pre-tax contributions made during ...
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- IRS Discusses Deductibility of Monthly Fee Paid to Alzheimer's Medical Facility
- From the February 18, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- This IRS information letter responds to an inquiry about the deductibility of a monthly fee paid to an Alzheimer’s medical facility. The letter explains that the entire cost of medical care, meals, and lodging furnished in an institution ...
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- Tax Court Holds That Sex Reassignment Surgery Expenses Were for Medical Carey
- From the February 11, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- After being diagnosed with a condition known as gender identity disorder (GID), the taxpayer in this case, based on the recommendation of medical care providers, received feminizing hormone therapy, began living as a female, and had sex reassignment surgery. She ...
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- DOL Posts Six EFAST2 User Guides Providing Assistance for Form 5500 Electronic Filers
- From the February 11, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- DOL has posted on its website six EFAST2 user guides to assist with electronically filing Form 5500 for 2009 and later plan years. Final DOL regulations, originally issued in 2007, require all Form 5500s for plan years beginning on or ...
