EBIA Weekly Archives - Cafeteria Plans
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- Infant Formula for Healthy Baby Was Not a Medical Care Expense
- From the October 22, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- In this private letter ruling, the IRS concluded that infant formula for the healthy baby of a woman who could not breastfeed due to a double mastectomy was not a medical care expense under Code Section 213(d). As support, ...
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- 2010 Cost-of-Living Adjustments in Dollar Limits and Thresholds for Retirement Plans Make Very Few Changes From 2009
- From the October 15, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The IRS has announced the 2010 cost-of-living adjustments applicable to the dollar limits and thresholds for retirement plans. Most of the limits remain unchanged from 2009 because the procedures for making annual adjustments do not allow the limits ...
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- 2010 Cost-of-Living Adjustments for Transportation Benefits, Adoption Assistance, and More
- From the October 15, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The IRS has released the 2010 cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) for a wide variety of tax benefit limits, including limits relating to qualified transportation fringe benefits, adoption assistance, dependent care assistance programs (DCAPs), and Archer MSAs. Qualified Transportation Fringe ...
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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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- DOL Releases New FAQs on All-Electronic Form 5500 Filing Under EFAST2
- From the September 24, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The DOL’s EFAST website now contains 45 FAQs addressing EFAST2, the all-electronic filing system for Form 5500 that is scheduled to be available beginning January 2010. As background, final DOL regulations issued in 2007 require that all ...
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- IRS and Treasury Officials Provide Unofficial Views on Imputing Income for Health Coverage and More
- From the September 24, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The Joint Committee on Employee Benefits (JCEB) of the American Bar Association has reported on its May 2009 Q&A session with IRS and Treasury officials. Highlights include unofficial, nonbinding remarks about the following topics covered by our Cafeteria ...
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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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- Tax Court Rules That Amounts Paid for Prostitutes, Pornography, Sex Therapy Books, and Magazines Are Not Medical Care Expenses
- From the September 17, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The issue in this case was whether a tax attorney could deduct as medical expenses on his federal income tax returns amounts paid for prostitutes, pornography, books and magazines on sex therapy, and videos. The attorney did not visit the ...
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- DOL Staff Members Provide Informal Views on SPDs/SMMs and Issues Under the Davis-Bacon And Service Contract Acts
- From the September 03, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The Joint Committee on Employee Benefits (JCEB) of the American Bar Association has reported on its May 7, 2009 Q&A session with DOL staff members. Highlights include unofficial, nonbinding remarks about these welfare plan topics: (1) SPD requirements ...
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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 ...
