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February 2013 Health Care Reform
Posted on: February 6, 2013Categories: HR & CompliancePay or Play: Identifying Full Time Employees On Jan. 2, 2013, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released long-awaited proposed regulations on ACA's employer penalty provisions. Although the proposed regulations are not final, employers may rely on them until further guidance is issued. The proposed regulations provide guidance on an optional method for identifying full-time employees for purposes of determining and calculating an employer's potential liability for a shared responsibility paymen ...
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Health Care Reform Update-HHS Proposed Rules
Posted on: January 30, 2013Categories: HR & ComplianceOn January 24, 2013, the Department of Labor announced that employers will not be held to the March 1, 2013 deadline to provide all new hires and current employees with a written notice about ACA's health insurance exchanges that were required by employers effective March 1, 2013. The DOL expects that the timing for the distribution of notices will be the late summer or fall of 2013, which will coordinate with the open enrollment period for Exchanges. For more details on this announcement w ...
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Health Care Reform Update
Posted on: January 25, 2013Categories: HR & ComplianceLatest HCR News (January 25, 2013): On January 14, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule the would implement provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) relating to the exchanges. Exchanges are central to the law and will change the delivery and financial structure to those individuals and employees who will qualify for subsidies in an Exchange. For those of you who would like to see the impact of subsidies and how they would apply to diff ...