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 ...
On May 12, the IRS issued Notice 2020-29 “COVID-19 Guidance Under Section 125 Cafeteria Plans and Related to High Deductible Health Plans” and Notice 2020-33 “Section 125 Cafeteria Plans – ...
Understanding the complexities and nuances of insurance policies is rarely a simple task. This can be especially true of employer-provided healthcare plans, which offer many different types of ...
In 2014, the Internal Revenue Service expanded the events that would allow employees to drop their health plan coverage under their employer’s cafeteria plan. As a reminder, the general rule is that ...
A cafeteria plan – also known as a Section 125 plan, after the portion of the IRS code that regulates the plans – lets employees redirect part of their salaries and wages to pay for certain benefits.
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Because individual employee needs differ greatly, and because business competition demands across-the-board cost reductions, a flexible approach to benefits promises to satisfy both needs. While ...