Substance Abuse During the COVID-19 Pandemic
As time goes by, the COVID-19 pandemic is becoming more stressful for many people. Fear and anxiety about the disease alone can be overwhelming to many children and adults. When anxiety about schools, jobs and loved ones are laid on top of the fears of the disease, a...
Compliance ✔- Premium Refund / Credit: How to Apply It
Due to COVID-19, some carriers are experiencing a reduction in benefit plan utilization and offering their employer-clients a refund or credit towards future premium payments. A few TPAs are providing a similar offset for administrative fees. If the refund is...
Compliance ✔- FFCRA Leave Revised Regulations
The Department of Labor revised FFCRA regulations related to the paid sick leave and expanded family and medical leave provisions, in light of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in an Aug. 3, 2020, decision that found portions of the...
Compliance ✔- 2021 ACA Penalty Amounts
The IRS increased the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) pay or play penalties for the 2021 calendar year: Section 4980H(a) penalty: $2,700 per full-time employee (minus the first 30 employees) when an ALE does not offer coverage to “substantially all” full-time employees...