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Your 2025 benefits compliance checklist: What you need to know

WEX Inc.

ACA reporting deadlines The Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandates that employers file reports annually with the IRS and distribute 1095-C forms to employees. The IRS requires this testing for Section 125 plans, HRAs, FSAs, and self-insured medical plans. Missing these deadlines can lead to significant financial penalties.

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2021 Year-End Compliance Checklist

The Olson Group

These include a Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC), privacy practices on personal health information (HIPPA), the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act on Health Coverage assistance (CHIPRA), Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act (WHCRA), and COBRA General Rights and Election Notices.

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Reconsidering your employee benefits priorities

Health Consultants Group

Whether their families battled the virus or not, they have all endured a life-changing event. After a year of unprecedented medical and personal experiences, employees can easily detect holes in their benefits plans. Family-Friendly Benefits: sick leave, time off to care for children and adult family members, paid foster care.

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How to Be Smart About FSA Spending

Benefit Resource Inc.

We think it’s pretty obvious, but we LOVE Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs). With roughly 160 Flexible Spending Account (FSA)-related blogs on our site concentrating on eligibility, spending options, plan strategy, savings, and more…we cover it all! Don’t wait until December to spend your funds.

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2021 Year-End Compliance Checklist

The Olson Group

These include a Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC), privacy practices on personal health information (HIPPA), the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act on Health Coverage assistance (CHIPRA), Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act (WHCRA), and COBRA General Rights and Election Notices.

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3 top HR tech tools no company should be without

Insperity

The Affordable Care Act folds in an additional layer of complexity. If you employed an average of 50 or more full-time (or full-time equivalent) employees in the prior calendar year, you could be subject to an IRS penalty if you don’t offer medical coverage to your full-time employees. That’s just the tip of the benefits iceberg.

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New COVID relief package extends payroll provisions

Business Management Daily

The new COVID relief package included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (H.R. The key payroll provisions include: An extension of the paid sick/ family leave provisions and your tax credit for providing leave. Relief for employees who receive surprise medical bills. The overall price tag?