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Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Benefits Monthly Minute - July 2025

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The July Monthly Minute highlights several benefits provisions under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and offers reminders about upcoming PCORI and Form 5500 deadlines. Many Benefits, One Big Beautiful Bill On July 4, 2025,...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Happy National Employee Benefits Day – – April 5, 2022!!

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Last year about this time, we wrote of how far we had come collectively in the world of employee benefits roughly one year after the onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic. We reveled at how we kept on keeping on, what we were able...more

BakerHostetler

FAQs: The Consolidated Appropriations Act (Temporarily) Offers Greater Flexibility for Flexible Spending Arrangements

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Q: Does the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA) make any changes to health flexible spending arrangements (Health FSAs)? A: Yes, if an employer sponsoring a Health FSA chooses to implement changes permitted by the...more

Williams Mullen

New Opportunities for Health Flexible Spending Arrangements and Cafeteria Plans

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In response to the COVID-19 crisis, Congress and the IRS have provided more flexibility and expanded opportunities for employees to utilize health flexible spending arrangements and to adjust cafeteria plan elections. ...more

Perkins Coie

IRS Notices Provide COVID-19 Relief Covering Section 125 Cafeteria Plans and Flexible Spending Account Benefit Plans

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Many employers have sought to leverage or make changes to their employer-sponsored benefits to address economic and health-related burdens faced by their employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. Until now, however, employers...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

IRS Increases the Health FSA Carryover Limit and Addresses Premium Reimbursement under ICHRAs

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On May 12, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2020-33 (the Notice), which increases the maximum health flexible spending account (FSA) carryover limit. The Notice also addresses a gap in existing guidance...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Do We Need a Plan Amendment for That? Top FAQs to Decide

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Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have gotten daily calls and emails from our clients asking how furloughs, layoffs, the CARES Act, and a host of other pandemic-related changes affect the benefit plans that they...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

IRS Issues Relaxed Cafeteria Plan Rules

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In response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, on May 12, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Code Section 125 (cafeteria plan) guidance (see IRS Notice 2020-29 and Notice 2020-33) that allows employers to...more

Dickinson Wright

Benefits Briefs in the Time of COVID-19, Part 6: Special Considerations for Mid-Year Changes to Cafeteria Plan Elections

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Section 125 cafeteria plan elections are irrevocable for the plan year unless the participant experiences a change in status or other event that allows an election change under the Section 125 regulations....more

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Benefits Briefs in the Time of COVID-19, Part 4: Reimbursement of Over-the-Counter Medications

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Congress has reversed course and amended the Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) to provide that a health flexible spending account (“health FSA”), health savings account (“HSA”) and health reimbursement account (“HRA”) may...more

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