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ACA Penalty Increase

Failing to offer affordable, minimum essential coverage to full time employees and their dependents now comes with steeper penalties. The IRS has adjusted the dollar ...
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Direct Deposit for your FSA/HRA Reimbursements

Benefit Allocation Systems provides easy and accurate flexible spending account (FSA) and health reimbursement account (HRA) services. Employers that use BAS for ...
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Question of the Week

Q.- We had an employee ask us what happens to her health flexible spending account money if she isn’t able to use it all this year. What do we say?
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Cybersecurity Guidance

A CISA Insights publication, Implement Cybersecurity Measures Now to Protect Against Potential Critical Threats, provides a checklist of actions to take to reduce the ...
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Guidance issued on End of National Emergency and COBRA Timeframes

In February, almost three years after President Trump declared a COVID-19 National Emergency and Public Health Emergency, the Biden Administration announced that the ...
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ACA Transmissions Due Tomorrow

Employers subject to the employer shared responsibility provisions of the Affordable Care Act should have distributed their 1095 Forms to full-time employees and covered ...
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Question of the Week

Q.- We provide group term life insurance to our employees. The carrier allows employees to ‘buy up’ for an increased benefit. Do we include the life insurance plan in ...
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Annual Report on HIPAA Compliance

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued its report to Congress on HIPAA compliance for the 2021 calendar year. The report identified an uptick in HIPAA ...
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Reference Library in MyEnroll360

MyEnroll360 provides employers the ability to create a comprehensive reference library for centralizing Human Resources documents. The Reference Library feature allows ...
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Remote Work and FMLA/FLSA Compliance

The U.S. Department of Labor released Field Assistance Bulletin 2021-1 providing guidance on the application of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and Fair Labor ...
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