Highlights of the Wellness Program Requirements

The wellness program rules provide an exception to the general rule that employers may not take a person’s health status into account with respect to eligibility, benefits, or premiums under a group health plan. Wellness programs, therefore, are allowe…

Thanksgiving Smorgasbord Of Regulations

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have recently issued several final and proposed rules of interest to employers.

PPACA Advisor – Additional Medicare Withholding

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published Final Regulations on the Additional Medicare Tax (AMT) on Nov. 29, 2013, and an updated and comprehensive FAQ on Dec. 2, 2013. There are few changes from the proposed requirements.

January Employer Webinar and Updates

January’s Employer Webinar will be held Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 at 2 p.m. ET and will focus on HRAs, HSAs and FSAs under PPACA. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for other details, including webinar presenter information.

Ancillary Products Survey Deliverables

UBA released the first installment of its deliverables from the 2013 Ancillary Products Survey on Nov. 25. Thank you for all your efforts to make our first biannual national Ancillary Products Survey such a remarkable success!

If PPACA Were the Joneses, “Keeping Up” Would Be Hard to Do

Delay, delay, delay … Error, delay, repeal. That seems to be the trend with health care reform, but it doesn’t mean employers are exempt from compliance in 2015 or the requirements that remain in effect for 2014 under the Patient Protection and Affor…

HR Elements – Retirement Woes

While a company’s workers may differ in age, gender and in a range of other categories, new research suggests they share at least one common attribute – a lack of confidence about retirement savings.

UBA Blog – The Transit Parity Roller Coaster

In the words of Yogi Berra, it’s like déjà vu all over again: Here we are, again almost at the end of the calendar year, and we still do not know where things stand with transit benefit parity.

 

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