News-to-Use

Question of the Week

  • BAS
  • 30.10.2014
Q.- An employee is covered in family coverage under our health plan. His son is turning 26 and is aging out of the plan. Do we have to offer him the right to continue ...
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Email Verification Process

  • BAS
  • 30.10.2014
Many employee communications from MyEnroll.com are sent to the participant’s email address on file. BAS takes steps to verify that the email address in the MyEnroll ...
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Open Enrollment through MyEnroll.com

  • BAS
  • 30.10.2014
Many employers with calendar year plans are beginning to prepare for the annual open enrollment period. MyEnroll.com provides both employers and employees with an easy ...
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Minimum Wage Raised for Certain Federal Workers

  • BAS
  • 30.10.2014
The U.S. Department of Labor issued a final rule that raises the minimum wage for workers on federal service and construction contracts. The minimum wage has been raised ...
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New Government Resources for Health Care Reform

The Congressional Research Service released a report on health care reform resources. The CRS is a legislative branch agency of the Library of Congress that provides ...
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Question of the Week

  • BAS
  • 23.10.2014
Q.- We have an employee who is participating in our dependent day care flexible spending account plan. His son is in day care, but his mother is now available to watch ...
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Don’t Share Passwords

  • BAS
  • 23.10.2014
Employer administrators should be reminded to keep their passwords to MyEnroll.com private and secure. Administrators should not share password logon access.
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COBRA Communications from MyEnroll.com

  • BAS
  • 23.10.2014
BAS’ Cobra Control Services keeps in touch with employers and administrators throughout the COBRA process. On the first of the month, CCS sends two emails. The first ...
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Time to Decide on Carry Over for FSA

  • BAS
  • 23.10.2014
Last year, the IRS modified the health flexible spending account (FSA) rules so that plans could allow participants to carry over up to $500 of unused contributions into ...
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Guidance Issued on Changes in Measurement Periods

  • BAS
  • 23.10.2014
Health care reform requires applicable large employers to offer minimum essential coverage to their full time employees or pay a penalty. Employers with 100 or more ...
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Question of the Week

  • BAS
  • 16.10.2014
Q.- We implemented the $500 carryover provision for our calendar year FSA plan. We have an employee who will not have used his full FSA amount by the end of the year. He ...
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Spam Filter on Incoming Junk Mail

  • BAS
  • 16.10.2014
Benefit Allocation Systems applies a trusted spam filter on email servers. This process detects unwanted and unsolicited email and blocks messages before they enter ...
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Health Care Reform Data Collection Solution

  • BAS
  • 16.10.2014
Benefit Allocation Systems can support your health care reform reporting needs with a comprehensive data collection and reporting solution. We understand health care ...
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Ban the Box in Employment Onboarding

  • BAS
  • 16.10.2014
Many states, counties and cities have enacted laws limiting an employer’s right to ask a job applicant about his or her criminal record. These so-called “ban the box” ...
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Open Enrollment for Marketplace Coverage

  • BAS
  • 16.10.2014
Individuals can enroll in Marketplace (“Exchange”) coverage at only limited times during the year. A Marketplace plan can be purchased at the expiration of group health ...
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Question of the Week

  • BAS
  • 09.10.2014
Q.- We have a cafeteria plan and employees pay for health insurance with pre-tax dollars. One employee asked if he could use after-tax dollars to pay for his health ...
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HIPAA Breach After Excel Sorting Goes Wrong

  • BAS
  • 09.10.2014
A major southern university medical center had to send breach notification letters after an Excel spreadsheet sort went wrong.
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Change to COBRA Lockbox

  • BAS
  • 09.10.2014
The address for mailing payments for continuation coverage, COBRA and retiree coverage administered by Benefit Allocation Systems’ Cobra Control Services (CCS) has ...
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Missing Participant Locating Services

  • BAS
  • 09.10.2014
The Department of Labor issued guidance on what steps must be taken to find missing plan participants upon a retirement plan termination.
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Healthcare.gov

  • BAS
  • 09.10.2014
The government has committed to revamping the application for coverage on www.healthcare.gov to make sure that enrollment in the Exchange runs more smoothly than last ...
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Question of the Week

  • BAS
  • 02.10.2014
Q. Our Health FSA has a 2-1/2 month grace period for incurring claims after the end of the plan year. We have an employee who is participating in the Health FSA in 2014, ...
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Sharing Documents

  • BAS
  • 02.10.2014
Employers should be wary of sharing documents containing sensitive information without proper redaction. Failing to properly redact information in a document, including ...
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BAS Call Center

  • BAS
  • 02.10.2014
Benefit Allocation Systems, Inc. has a state-of-the-art Client Services center that is equipped to address telephone calls, emails, and faxes timely and accurately. BAS’ ...
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Annual Employee Communications

  • BAS
  • 02.10.2014
The fall is a good time for employers to review the annual notices that must be distributed to employees. Some notices are distributed at open enrollment, and others are ...
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Draft Instructions for Health Care Reform Reporting Released

The IRS issued draft instructions for the forms that employers and insurers must use to report health care reform compliance under Internal Revenue Code section 6055 and ...
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