EBIA Weekly Archives - Cafeteria Plans
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- What benefits can we offer under our company's cafeteria plan?
- From the February 26, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company maintains a premium-only cafeteria plan (POP) under which employees who elect company-sponsored major medical coverage can pay their share of the premiums with pre-tax dollars. We are thinking of amending our cafeteria plan to ...
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- New Law Establishes Additional Special Enrollment Rights, Notice, and Disclosure Obligations for Group Health Plans
- From the February 05, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- On February 4, 2009, President Obama signed into law the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009, which extends and expands the state children’s health insurance program (CHIP). Among other things, the new law allows ...
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- Expenses Incurred to Father Children Through Unrelated Egg Donor and Gestational Carriers Were Not for Medical Care
- From the February 05, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- In this case, the Tax Court considered whether a taxpayer could deduct expenses of fathering children through unrelated gestational carriers using in vitro fertilization (IVF) of an anonymous donor’s eggs with his sperm. The taxpayer had two children ...
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- Where can our health FSA participants use debit cards to pay for medical care expenses?
- From the January 29, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company is thinking about implementing a debit card program under 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 pay for ...
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- Updated IRS Procedures for Issuing Letter Rulings, Determination Letters, and Other Employee Plan Guidance
- From the January 22, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- Internal Revenue Bulletin 2009-1 contains the annual update and restatement of eight IRS revenue procedures that govern letter rulings, information letters, determination letters, and other IRS guidance, including guidance about employee plans. Each revenue procedure supersedes its 2008 counterpart. ...
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- 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 ...
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- IRS Updates Publication 503 (Child and Dependent Care Expenses) for 2008
- From the January 15, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The IRS has updated Publication 503 (Pub. 503) for use in preparing 2008 tax returns. Pub. 503 explains the requirements that taxpayers must meet in order to claim the dependent care tax credit (DCTC) under Code Section 21 for child ...
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- 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 ...
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- 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 ...
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- What's the status of the 2007 proposed cafeteria plan regulations?
- From the December 23, 2008 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: We know that the IRS issued proposed cafeteria plan regulations in 2007 with a proposed effective date of January 1, 2009. What’s the status of these regulations? Are employers required to comply with them as of January ...
