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It’s common for employers to require employees to pay a share of premiums for many employee benefits. To take a bite of this cost-sharing requirement, many employers permit employees to pay for their ...

The IRS recently published two items of guidance to allow temporary changes to cafeteria plans. As a result of the guidance, employers may allow employees to make mid-year benefit election changes to ...

As employers and employees adjust to the changes caused by this unprecedented global pandemic, preserving access to and protecting elections under group health and welfare plans are hot topics on many ...

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What happens if an employee wants to drop out of the company plan and get into the exchange? Seems like an option except the cafeteria plan rules prevent someone from making a mid-year change in their ...

Cafeteria, or Section 125 plans include employer-sponsored benefits that are exempt from federal and typically, state taxes. Your employees pay for these benefits with pre-tax money, which you don't ...

Under IRC Section 6039D, an employer sponsoring a cafeteria plan was required to file an information return with the IRS. This return indicated the number of the employer’s employees, the number of ...

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A cafeteria plan is an employee benefits plan administered under Section 125 of the federal tax code that lets employees pay certain expenses with pretax income. It's called a cafeteria plan because ...

The IRS issued two notices on Thursday, proposing to change the rules for when a taxpayer can revoke health care coverage in a cafeteria plan and enroll in a plan on the Health Insurance Marketplace ...