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Question of the Week

Q.- We are a small employer with under 10 employees and we were purchased by a large company. Since we will now be subject to COBRA with over 20 employees, do we have to ...
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Protecting Benefits after Job Loss

The Employee Benefits Security Administration released a tip sheet with guidance for protecting benefits after job loss.
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BAS COBRA Services

BAS, through its subsidiary Cobra Control Services, LLC, provides a complete turn-key COBRA (and continuation of coverage) administration solution.
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Question of the Week

Q.- A dependent aged off of our plan but we forgot to remove him from coverage. The insurer will not terminate him back to the date of his 26th birthday. Since he had ...
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Question of the Week

Q.- We offer a few different medical plans to our employees. A COBRA participant wants to change plans to a lower cost option. It is not open enrollment time. Do we have ...
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Department of Labor Required Reporting Guide

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) published a Reporting and Disclosure Guide for Employee Benefit Plans. This guide may be ...
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Question of the Week

Q.- Do we need to send a COBRA notice to teachers when they go on summer break? They are not working but we do continue their health coverage.
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Question of the Week

Q.- A former employee’s 18 months of COBRA will end 6/30/22. He will be going on Medicare 6/1/22. He thinks this is a second qualifying event and his spouse should be ...
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Question of the Week

Q.- A former employee had a COBRA qualifying event. His 60 days to elect continuation coverage ended last week. I heard that even though he didn’t elect COBRA within 60 ...
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