BerniePortal

JUNE 17, 2020

The IRS has released the 2021 cost-of-living adjusted limits for health savings accounts (HSAs) and high-deductible health plans (HDHPs).

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Money Talk

JANUARY 19, 2022

In this post, I continue my discussion of tips from webinars, podcasts, and virtual conferences that I heard during the last quarter of 2021. Make Tax-Advantaged Gifts - Consider “bunching” charitable donations with other tax deductions (e.g., high income years) to exceed the standard deduction and benefit from itemizing.

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Money Talk

JUNE 8, 2022

Below are ten tax withholding tips for taxpayers with multiple streams of income: Inventory Your Total Income- Make a list of projected income sources for the current year, using previous income listed on your 2021 tax return as a guide. Adjust the previous income as life circumstances necessitate (e.g.,

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InterWest Insurance Services

JANUARY 20, 2022

One of the health insurance trends that went largely unnoticed in 2021 was that employers halted cost-shifting to their employees by reducing or holding steady workers’ deductibles and other cost-sharing. in 2021, employers did not increase employee’s share of premiums significantly. in 2021, according to the study.

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InterWest Insurance Services

DECEMBER 9, 2021

HDHP telehealth services — The CARES Act, signed into law in 2020 after the pandemic started, temporarily allowed high-deductible health plans to pay for telehealth services before an enrollee had met their deductible. 31, 2021, and for plan years that start on or after Jan. That comes to an end Dec. More guidance coming.

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WEX Inc.

MAY 8, 2023

More employees are enrolling in a high-deductible health plan (HDHP) each year, including more than half of U.S. private-sector workers in 2021. Typically, an employee enrolled in a PPO will have higher premiums and a lower deductible than an employee enrolled in an HDHP. So, what are the big differences between the two?

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InterWest Insurance Services

APRIL 27, 2023

Overall rates for employers with 10 or fewer employees saw their family plan health insurance premiums jump 12% from 2021, compared to just 5.4% overall between 2021 and 2022. While high-deductible health plan (HDHP) enrollment grew at an astounding 68% between 2021 and 2022, they only accounted for 6% of group health plan enrollment.

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Employee Benefits

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Phillips is pursuing a claim for disability discrimination and complaints about deductions from wages and holiday pay. However in 2021 she was told that she could no longer use vinyl gloves at work and was required to trial other types of gloves, one or some which caused her to suffer another allergic reaction.

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InterWest Insurance Services

MAY 16, 2024

After enrollment in high-deductible health plans soared during the last decade, 2022 marked the first year that enrollment in these plans fell among American workers since 2013, according to a new report by ValuePenguin. workers signed up for HDHPs in 2022, compared to 56% in 2021. The insurance-review website found that 54% of U.S.

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Benefits Notes

JANUARY 4, 2023

The CARES Act permitted high deductible health plans (“HDHP”) to provide first-dollar telehealth services or other remote care services. This allowed individuals covered under a HDHP that waived the deductible for telehealth services or other remote care to maintain HSA eligibility.

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Snell & Wilmer Benefits

JANUARY 24, 2023

If you sponsor a high deductible health plan (“HDHP”) and have been tracking telehealth relief, your head may be spinning and rightfully so! The relief allows, but does not require, HDHPs to provide telehealth and other remote care services on a pre-deductible basis without making participants health savings account (“HSA”) ineligible.

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InterWest Insurance Services

JUNE 6, 2024

After enrollment in high-deductible health plans soared during the last decade, 2022 marked the first year that enrollment in these plans fell among American workers since 2013, according to a new report by ValuePenguin. workers signed up for HDHPs in 2022, compared to 56% in 2021. The insurance-review website found that 54% of U.S.

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PeopleKeep

JULY 8, 2022

Premium increases, higher deductibles and copays, and soaring prescription drug prices result in spikes in healthcare costs. According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 1 , in 2021, healthcare costs skyrocketed to $4.3 The average American spends a considerable amount of money on healthcare each year.

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InterWest Insurance Services

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The “Health Insurance Literacy Survey” by Healthcare.com found widespread misunderstanding about how copays and deductibles work, and what premiums and benefits are. Those poor choices can be costly in terms of the premiums they pay or what they pay in copays, coinsurance and deductibles out of pocket. What it costs them.

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InterWest Insurance Services

MARCH 22, 2022

Employers with 50 or more workers – The deadline for registration was June 30, 2021. Payroll deduction IRAs with automatic enrollment. Participating employers will deduct a default rate of 5% of pay from the paycheck of each employee at least 18 years old and deposit it into the individual’s CalSavers account. 401(k) plans.

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InterWest Insurance Services

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Employers looking for ways to decrease their group health insurance outlays over the past decade have been turning to high-deductible health plans as they offer lower up-front premiums. In 2021, 51% of the U.S. It means getting the deductible amounts right and educating them on how to best use these plans. Too-high deductibles.

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InterWest Insurance Services

JANUARY 5, 2023

With Americans increasingly struggling to pay their health care bills, more employers are shying away from only offering their workers high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) that reduce premiums up front for higher out-of-pocket costs for workers. That fell to 13% in 2021 and was only 9% in 2022. Cost-cutting.

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InterWest Insurance Services

JANUARY 27, 2023

That’s up from 26% in 2020 and 2021. Even if you are providing them with a robust plan, there are often out-of-pocket cost-sharing and deductibles to contend with. For employees in high-deductible health plans, the costs can be steep. The rapid increase occurred in a year where inflation was at a 40-year high.

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Benefit Resource Inc.

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Increasing deductibles is key for employers to use in managing ever-increasing premiums. • A “high” deductible plan still has a negative connotation. In 2021, 85% of covered workers enrolled in a plan with the general annual deductible, but many hesitate to move to an HDHP/SO option because of the name “high” deductible.

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Business Management Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2019

1, 2021, is a holiday. 1 payday back into 2020, you’d still have 27 biweekly pay periods, this time in 2021. Hourly-paid nonexempts are impacted only to the extent of withholding and deductions. Employees’ benefits deductions and allowances (e.g., Why: Paydays occurring on holidays are usually pushed back a day and Jan.

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Benefit Resource Inc.

MAY 26, 2020

Find details on the 2021 HSA contribution limits for individuals and families and HDHP requirements here! For employers and individuals currently in a plan set at or near the minimum deductible limits, you will need to make adjustments to ensure your plan remains HSA eligible. HDHP minimum deductible: $1,400*.

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Business Management Daily

JULY 19, 2021

One solution you may be able to suggest to your provider is that they implement a nontaxable earnings code with an offsetting deduction to track the amounts to be included on your second-quarter 941. If you take the tax credit, you’re not entitled to a tax deduction for the same wages. The post Your 2021 payroll questions answered.

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InterWest Insurance Services

JULY 20, 2022

Keep in mind that the ritual of choosing a benefits package is a brand-new experience for people who are new to the workforce, and you should prepare to educate new employees on how to effectively choose and use their new coverages, as well as all the details like premiums, deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses.

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InterWest Insurance Services

JULY 11, 2023

Increasing deductibles — Many carriers are shifting more of the risk to their policyholders in wildfire-prone areas by increasing their deductibles. Some companies are being saddled with deductibles that are two-thirds of the policy limits, meaning they are taking on more of the risk than the insurer is.

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Business Management Daily

MARCH 12, 2021

On a corporate level, you’re not losing out, because you can deduct the employer’s portion of FICA on your Form 1120. The IRS hasn’t released the 2021 edition yet, but the rules are the same. Even though we’re ineligible for the paid leave tax credits, we have chosen to extend leave to employees through March 31, 2021.

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Benefit Resource Inc.

JANUARY 4, 2023

The 2023 spending bill signed into law on December 29th includes extending pre-deductible telehealth services coverage. WHAT IS PRE-DEDUCTIBLE TELEHEALTH COVERAGE? Pre-deductible telehealth coverage allows HSAs-qualifying high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) to cover telehealth and remote-care services on a pre-deductible basis.

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Business Management Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The two withholding systems the IRS ushered in this year—one based on employees who file post-2019 W-4s and the other based on employees who’ve filed pre-2020 W-4s—are out; an employer-optional bridge is in, starting with 2021 withholding, according to final regulations. the value of three withholding allowances).

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WEX Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

Unlike a medical FSA, a limited FSA can be paired with a health savings account (HSA) and a high-deductible health plan (HDHP). Combination FSA, which is a limited FSA that converts into a medical FSA once the IRS deductible is met. This blog post was originally published in July 2021 and was most recently updated in August 2023.

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Benefits Notes

OCTOBER 28, 2020

On October 26, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Notice 2020-79 , which sets forth the 2021 cost-of-living adjustments affecting dollar limits on benefits and contributions for qualified retirement plans. The following chart summarizes the 2021 limits for benefit plans. HDHP Minimum Deductible Limits.

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Snell & Wilmer Benefits

JANUARY 24, 2023

If you sponsor a high deductible health plan (“HDHP”) and have been tracking telehealth relief, your head may be spinning and rightfully so! The relief allows, but does not require, HDHPs to provide telehealth and other remote care services on a pre-deductible basis without making participants health savings account (“HSA”) ineligible.

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Benefit Resource Inc.

MARCH 4, 2022

Based on data from (1) Kaiser Family Foundation Annual Employer Benefits Survey 2001 – 2021 & (2) US Inflation Calculator – [link]. But, the good news is that there has been some slowing of that trend, which aligns with the increased use of deductibles. But I guess I could say gone are the days of the $250 to $500 deductible.

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Employee Benefits

JULY 3, 2023

According to the 2021 Proshare SAYE and Sip report, published in August 2022, in organisations that offer a Sip to employees, 41% of eligible staff participated. According to the aforementioned Proshare report, 28% of respondents offered free shares in 2021, while 58% offered matching shares, up from 54% the previous year.

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Health Consultants Group

DECEMBER 1, 2021

For example, some companies deduct surcharges directly from their unvaccinated employees’ paychecks. They fired many employees who failed to meet the company’s October 25, 2021 vaccine mandate deadline. Delta Airlines announced its company’s vaccine progress on August 25, 2021.

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Ascender

OCTOBER 5, 2019

The first phase of STP reporting included high-level data such as Gross, Tax, Allowances, Deductions, Lump Sums and Fringe Benefits. The next phase sees the reports moving away from Payment Summary Annual Rules (PSAR) and Payment Summaries for allowances and deductions to “Income Types.”

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Benefit Resource Inc.

MARCH 16, 2021

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 has affected both continuation coverage and the limit for dependent care FSAs. The first thing to know about the new temporary limit is that it only applies to plan years that start in 2021. But a new bill from Congress passed last week and is changing that. What is the new limit for Dependent Care?

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cipHR

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

For the 2021/22 tax year (and through to 2025/26), the tax code for most people under 65 who only have one job or pension is 1257L. Since pension auto enrolment was introduced in 2012, more people than ever have pension deductions – employee and employer pension contributions – showing on their payslips. Personal details.

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InterWest Insurance Services

AUGUST 31, 2023

While health care providers have been contending with inflation since 2021, they’ve been unable to pass them on to health insurers because they usually enter into three-year contracts with locked-in rate hikes. ” Talk to us about your options as 2024 approaches.

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