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IRS Announces 2024 Retirement Plan Limits | JD Supra
The IRS recently announced the 2024 cost-of-living adjustments to various benefit and contribution limits applicable to retirement plans. The IRS modestly increased the applicable limits for 2024. The following limits apply to retirement plans in 2024: The limit on elective deferrals under 401(k), 403(b), and eligible 457(b) plans increased to $23,000. The limit on additional catch-up contributions by participants aged 50 or older remains at $7,500.
IRS Announces 2024 Retirement Plan Limits
The IRS recently announced the 2024 cost-of-living adjustments to various benefit and contribution limits applicable to retirement plans. The IRS modestly increased the applicable limits for 2024. The following limits apply to retirement plans in 2024: The limit on elective deferrals under 401(k), 403(b), and eligible 457(b) plans increased to $23,000. The limit on additional catch-up contributions by participants aged 50 or older remains at $7,500.
DOL Issues Long Awaited Mental Health Parity Guidance | JD Supra Original
Plan sponsors, insurers, and third-party administrators should pay close attention to the new guidance to facilitate health plan compliance with complex nonquantitative treatment limitation comparative analyses requirements.
DOL Issues Long Awaited Mental Health Parity Guidance
Call Out: Plan sponsors, insurers, and third-party administrators should pay close attention to the new guidance to facilitate health plan compliance with complex nonquantitative treatment limitation comparative analyses requirements.
Health Plan Coverage and Documentation Following the End of the COVID-19 Emergencies | JD Supra
The COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency officially ended on April 10 and May 11, 2023, respectively.
Health Plan Coverage and Documentation Following the End of the COVID-19 Emergencies
The COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency officially ended on April 10 and May 11, 2023, respectively.
Holiday Rush Brings Health Plans Eagerly Awaited RxDC Reporting Guidance and Relief | JD Supra
In FAQs Part 56, issued on December 23, 2022, the Treasury Department and the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services (collectively, Departments) issued important guidance on prescription drug benefit and cost reporting required of health plans and issuers (collectively, health plans). The FAQ guidance includes good faith relief for the 2020 and 2021 submissions.
The Annual Form 5500 Audit: DOL Broadens Criteria for Independent Qualified Public Accountants | JD Supra
The Department of Labor (DOL) recently removed one regulatory hurdle for public companies that maintain employee benefit plans subject to the Form 5500 requirement. Specifically, the DOL has relaxed the criteria for who qualifies as an “independent qualified public accountant,” or “IQPA.” This matters to employers because it will open the market to new accounting firms that can issue the accountant’s report for the Form 5500 annual filing.
Employers Must Provide COBRA Subsidies to Assistance Eligible Individuals | JD Supra
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), which was signed into law by President Biden on March 11, 2021, includes COBRA subsidy provisions that are significant – both for the individuals who will become eligible for COBRA subsidies and for the employers who will be required to subsidize COBRA coverage. The key requirements of the COBRA subsidies, which are effective beginning April 1, 2021, are outlined below.
FSA Relief and Significant New Health Plan Requirements Included in Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 | JD Supra
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (Act), enacted on December 27, 2020, contains a number of provisions that may impact the design and administration of employer-sponsored group health plans and flexible spending account (FSA) benefits. Below, we summarize the primary provisions. In the days and weeks ahead, Spotlight on Benefits will provide a series of blog posts that will address the provisions in more detail.
FSA Relief and Significant New Health Plan Requirements Included in Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021
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Health Plan Transparency Final Rule Requires New Health Plan Disclosures | JD Supra
On October 29, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and Department of Labor (DOL) issued the final rule on transparency in health plan coverage. The final rule imposes significant new requirements on group health plans, including all issuers of non-grandfathered individual and group health insurance coverage and self-insured plans (that are not account based plans), to disclose information on pricing and cost-sharing under their plans.
Health Plan Transparency Final Rule Requires New Health Plan Disclosures
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Reminder for 401(k) Plan Sponsors: Long-Term, Part-Time Employee Eligibility Requirements Take Effect in 2021 under the SECURE Act | JD Supra
The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act of 2019 changed a number of requirements for retirement plans in 2020 and beyond. Certain changes under the SECURE Act already are in effect in 2020, including changes to the required minimum distribution rules for participants and beneficiaries, and changes to qualified automatic contribution arrangements under defined contribution plans, as discussed in more detail in our prior alert.
Reminder for 401(k) Plan Sponsors: Long-Term, Part-Time Employee Eligibility Requirements Take Effect in 2021 under the SECURE Act
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Executive Order Revives HHS Proposed Rule on Prescription Drug Rebates | JD Supra
On July 24, 2020, President Trump signed four Executive Orders related to drug pricing that direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to take a number of actions aimed at lowering prescription drug prices. These HHS actions generally are not expected to apply directly to employer-sponsored group health plans.
Executive Order Revives HHS Proposed Rule on Prescription Drug Rebates
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COVID-19 Joint Agency Relief Part 3: COBRA and Special Enrollment Extensions | JD Supra
As noted in our May 1 blog post, the Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of Labor (DOL), Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Department of Treasury (the Agencies) issued guidance (the Extension Guidance) extending various benefits-related deadlines in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Agencies Provide COVID-19-Related Extension for Numerous Benefit Plan Deadlines | JD Supra
Updated: May 25, 2018: JD Supra is a legal publishing service that connects experts and their content with broader audiences of professionals, journalists and associations.
FAQs on COVID-19 Group Health Plan Coverage Implementation | JD Supra
Updated: May 25, 2018: JD Supra is a legal publishing service that connects experts and their content with broader audiences of professionals, journalists and associations.
FAQs on COVID-19 Group Health Plan Coverage Implementation | Lexology
The Department of Labor (DOL), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Department of the Treasury (collectively, “the Departments”) issued Frequently Asked Questions for health plans implementing coverage changes under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (Families First Act) and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
Benefit Plan FAQs on COVID-19 Part 3 | JD Supra
Updated: May 25, 2018: JD Supra is a legal publishing service that connects experts and their content with broader audiences of professionals, journalists and associations.
Another U.S. Supreme Court Review of Affordable Care Act Could Impact Employer Health Plans | JD Supra
Updated: May 25, 2018: JD Supra is a legal publishing service that connects experts and their content with broader audiences of professionals, journalists and associations.
ACA Intrigue to Continue into 2019 – Federal Court in Texas Issues Ruling with Potentially Far-Reaching Implications for Health Care and Employer Group Health Plans
Wednesday, December 19, 2018 Last Friday, a U.S. District Court held in Texas, et al. v. United States of America, et al. that the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional, and that the other provisions in the ACA are invalid because they are inseverable from the individual mandate. The federal judge left certain issues undecided, and did not issue a final order or grant an injunction preventing enforcement of the ACA provisions.
Focus on Group Health Plan Compliance – New Guidance on the Health Savings Account Family Contribution Limit and Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Benefits
New guidance in two areas informs and assists with group health plan administrators’ compliance efforts. The Treasury Department (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have readjusted the 2018 family health savings account (HSA) contribution limit back to $6,900. The 2018 limit was first set at $6,900 last year, and was later adjusted to $6,850 in March 2018 as part of inflation adjustment changes made under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act enacted at the end of 2017.
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