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Cafeteria plans for health insurance: Understanding Section 125 benefits

Higginbotham

Employees typically make contributions under salary reduction agreements that allow them to contribute a portion of their salary on a pre-tax basis. In a premium-only plan , employees can elect to take their full salary in cash or to use the benefit to pay for group health insurance premiums.

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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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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. Healthcare, including mental health, telemedicine services, and wellness. Accident and Health Benefits .

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The impact of Dobbs on employer provided healthcare

Business Management Daily

Group health plans are the natural place to start when thinking about reimbursing expenses related to female employees’ family planning decisions. A welter of laws cover group health plans and in all probability, you won’t be able to navigate this landscape by yourself. What is medical care? Which law applies?

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Budgeting and Prepping for Open Enrollment

InterWest Insurance Services

For 2024, for a plan to qualify as an HDHP the deductible must be at least $1,400 for an individual and $2,800 for a family. These plans usually have an attached health savings account to which your workers can transfer funds pre-tax from their paychecks to use for paying deductibles, copays and other medical expenses.

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Budgeting and Prepping for Open Enrollment

InterWest Insurance Services

For 2024, for a plan to qualify as an HDHP the deductible must be at least $1,400 for an individual and $2,800 for a family. These plans usually have an attached health savings account to which your workers can transfer funds pre-tax from their paychecks to use for paying deductibles, copays and other medical expenses.

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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 law also extends expiring tax provisions and everything that could be jammed into 5,593 pages of federal legislation three days before Christmas. Extensions of popular payroll tax provisions. Temporary disaster tax relief.