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On January 30, 2023, President Biden issued the long-anticipated announcement that the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency will end soon. (Yes, two different “emergencies” are currently in effect, with different consequences flowing from each, but the distinction between them is not important for our purposes.) According to the […]

To read the Alert in PDF format, click here. On December 29, 2022, the President signed legislation that makes major changes to the current laws governing retirement plans. These changes have an impact on all retirement plans and will require plan amendments at some point in the future. If you […]

To read this Alert in PDF format, click here. In our recent Alert on March 25, 2021 (see here), we briefly addressed some of the latest COBRA developments regarding (i) how to calculate COBRA deadlines now that the COVID-19-inspired suspension of the original deadlines has been lifted, and (ii) who […]

To read this Alert in PDF format, click here. If you’re an employer and you offer a group health plan to your employees that is subject to COBRA, you will be affected by two recent developments coming out of Washington: New Guidance Regarding Suspension of COBRA Deadlines. The Department of […]

To read this Alert in PDF format, click here.  In what is fast becoming an annual holiday tradition, Congress enacted a massive spending bill in the last week of the year that also includes provisions affecting the benefits employers offer to their employees. The “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021” includes, among […]

To read this Alert in PDF format, click here. The last few months have seen a dizzying amount of COVID-19-inspired federal legislation, regulations, and agency guidance affecting employee welfare benefit plans.  Last week, we published an Alert describing how the IRS had increased the maximum annual carryover limit for Health […]

To read this Alert in PDF format, click here. If you offer a Health Flexible Spending Account (“Health FSA”) to your employees, you are probably already familiar with the rules that apply, including the following: Participants must make an election during open enrollment as to how much, if anything, they […]

Many of the deadlines that normally apply to employer-sponsored group health plans and other types of welfare benefit plans have effectively been suspended as a result of a newly issued regulation from the Department of Labor (“DOL”) and Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”). To read this Alert in PDF format, click […]

On Friday, March 27, 2020, the President signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, commonly known as the CARES Act.  Although the CARES Act is a complicated law with a dizzying array of provisions, the focus of this Alert is strictly on those parts that affect eligible retirement […]

With more and more employers having to cut employee hours or furlough employees in one form or another due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, it is vitally important that employers review the terms of their employee welfare benefit plans.  This is true for group health plans and non-group health plans […]