Compliance News Week Ending November 8, 2024 Benefit Nondiscrimination RulesIRS Notice 2024-80 Employers are generally permitted to differentiate benefits, eligibility, waiting periods and contribut...
Reminder of August 20, 2024 Compliance Webinar InvitationDefining Plan Eligibility for Employees, Spouses and DependentsAmwins Connect Insurance Services continues to be a proud sponsor of Summit Empl...
Amwins Connect – July 2024 Question of the Month
Question
Can two owners/officers under a S-Corporation Company elect an FSA for themselves or any other owner of the company?
Answer
A 2-pe...
Section 1557 Nondiscrimination Final Rules
Late in April of this year, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) finalized rules that expand the requirements previously set forth in agenc...
Employer COBRA Subsidies
Date Issued: April 2024
Background
Employers may want to provide an employee with a COBRA subsidy for any number of reasons, whether it is to help meet their own affo...
Nondiscrimination Rules – Options for Highly Compensated Individuals (HCIs)
February 2024
Benefit nondiscrimination rules restrict the extent to which employers may favor highly compensated indi...
Nondiscrimination Tips and Tricks
11-8-2023
When is it OK to discriminate in favor of highly compensated staff? Many employers do not realize that the health insurance nondiscrimination rules ar...
Reminder of June 20, 2023 Summit Employee Benefits Webinar Invitation
Topic: Health and Welfare Benefit Nondiscrimination Rules
Amwins Connect Insurance Services is once again a proud sponsor of...
Health Benefits for Different Classes of Employees
Can employers design health benefits differently for classes of employees?
Employers may be thinking of providing health plans by ‘employee cla...
A Guide to Non-Discrimination Testing for Self-Insured Group Health PlansMost employer group benefit plans provide tax-advantaged benefits and are subject to non-discrimination rules to discourage emp...
A Guide to Non-Discrimination Testing for Fully Insured Group Health PlansMost employer group benefit plans provide tax-advantaged benefits and are subject to non-discrimination rules to discourage em...
Coverage for gender-related treatment and services is an evolving issue. Over the past decade, however, legislation, regulations and court decisions all suggest that failure to provide equal access t...