Navigating the Nuances of the COBRA Subsidy Under the American Rescue Plan Act
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Healthcare Headlines Episode 5 - COVID Legislation & Regulations: Financial Support for Providers
Inside DC: What To Expect From the DC Budget Process
COVID-19 Vaccine News - Employment Law This Week® - #WorkforceWednesday
Podcast: Employers and the American Rescue Plan - Employment Law This Week® - #WorkforceWednesday
COVID-Related Changes to Paid Sick Leave
Podcast: American Rescue Plan Delivers New Stimulus Funding - Diagnosing Health Care
How the American Rescue Plan Act Affects COBRA
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The Employee Retention Credit (ERC) was introduced as part of the March 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to encourage businesses to maintain their workforce during the economic disruptions of...more
On September 14, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Employee Retention Credit (ERC) guidance placing a moratorium on processing new ERC claims due to a surge in questionable claim submissions. Claims already...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have finalized rules for the recapture of erroneously claimed Employee Retention Credits (ERC) and other tax credits provided to employers for...more
The Employee Retention Credit – Introduction. Congress acted quickly during the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic to provide hiring and other economic incentives to employers. One particularly helpful relief provision—the employee...more
Pennsylvania hospitals and behavioral health providers that recently received Act 2 of 2022 payments as part of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) from the Department of Human Services (DHS) should keep in mind that: 1) all...more
Please note: This alert has been updated with new developments after the enactment of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act authorized a refundable tax...more
On November 15, 2021, President Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (the “IIJA”) into law. IIJA contains two sections that may affect qualified retirement plans....more
President Biden’s signing of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) on November 15, 2021, retroactively eliminates an employer’s ability to claim employee retention credits (ERC) for eligible wages paid after...more
On Monday, November 15, President Joseph Biden signed the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (the Infrastructure Act). Although the legislation contains only a few tax provisions, one surprising change is...more
The IRS issued Notice 2021-49 (the “Notice”) on August 4, 2021 to provide additional guidance on the Employee Retention Tax Credit (“ERTC”) applicable to the third and fourth quarters of 2021....more
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of August 2, 2021 – August 6, 2021... August 3, 2021: The IRS issued a news release as part of a...more
On December 27, the President signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021. The Act includes a roughly $900 billion COVID-19 relief package, known as the “Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits and...more
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act authorized a refundable tax credit important to many employers struggling as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This credit, known as the Employee Retention...more
The Employee Retention Credit (ERC) was established by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) on March 27, 2020, to encourage businesses to keep employees on their payroll during the pandemic....more
This week, our special podcast series, Employers and the New Administration, concludes with a look at how President Biden’s landmark American Rescue Plan impacts employers. As President Biden’s first 100 days come to a...more
Multiple federal laws enacted during the pandemic have provided assistance to struggling employers, including assistance through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the employee retention tax credits (ERC). PPP and ERC,...more
Eligible employers that have not claimed the employee retention credit could be leaving tens of thousands of dollars of tax benefits on the table. The stakes are even higher under the recently enacted American Rescue Plan...more
President Biden signed The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“ARPA”) into law on March 11, 2021, adding new employee benefits relief and providing extensions of prior COVID-19 relief. In our prior Alert[1] we discussed ARPA’s...more
The American Rescue Plan Act (the “Relief Act”) expands dependent care assistance tax credits to 50% from 35% and increases the dollar limitation. While this is an individual income tax question, employers offering dependent...more
In the past week, there have been several overlapping laws enacted regarding COVID-19. On March 12, 2021, Governor Cuomo signed into law legislation which mandates that all New York employers provide paid leave of up to four...more
US President Joe Biden signed into law the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA, the Act) on March 11, 2021. ARPA follows from weeks of negotiations in Congress and attempts to facilitate the country’s...more
On March 11, 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (the ARPA), the third set of legislation aimed at assisting individuals and businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, was signed into law by President Biden. Along with...more
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), signed into law by President Biden on March 11, 2021, extends the employee retention credit, originally enacted as part of the 2020 CARES Act, through the end of 2021. Under the...more
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA, 2021) was signed by President Biden on March 11, 2021 to address the continuing economic impact on employers and employees the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has posed. The ARPA...more
On March 11, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA). The ARPA is the latest installment of COVID-19–related stimulus packages passed by Congress in the last 12 months. Similar to the...more