Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), individuals are required to have health insurance while applicable large employers (ALEs) are required to offer health benefits to their full-time employees.
Reporting is required by employers with 50 or more full-time (or full-time equivalent) employees, insurers, or sponsors of self-funded health plans, on health coverage that is offered in order for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to verify that:
- Individuals have the required minimum essential coverage,
- Individuals who request premium tax credits are entitled to them, and
- ALEs are meeting their shared responsibility (play or pay) obligations.
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Affordable Care Act,
applicable large employers,
ACA reporting
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), individuals are required to have health insurance while applicable large employers (ALEs) are required to offer health benefits to their full-time employees.
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Topics:
ACA,
employer shared responsibility,
Danielle Capilla,
Affordable Care Act,
play or pay requirements,
applicable large employers,
IRS Form 1094-C
If you are an Applicable Large Employer (ALE), you may still be catching your breath from 2015 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) reporting. However, in a couple of weeks the process starts all over again as you prepare for the 2016 reporting cycle. As with all new requirements, the first filing cycle had some bumps as there was little guidance for some of the questions and issues that arose. In preparation for 2017, let’s take a look at the “C” forms and discuss areas of the forms that may have been confusing.
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Topics:
ACA,
Affordable Care Act,
applicable large employers,
Compliancedashboard,
Vicki Randall,
Form 1094-C,
IRS reporting,
Form 1095-C,
offer of coverage
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), individuals are required to have health insurance while applicable large employers (ALEs) are required to offer health benefits to their full-time employees. In order for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to verify that (1) individuals have the required minimum essential coverage, (2) individuals who request premium tax credits are entitled to them, and (3) ALEs are meeting their shared responsibility (play or pay) obligations, employers with 50 or more full-time or full-time equivalent employees and insurers will be required to report on the health coverage they offer. Final instructions for the 1094-B and 1095-B and the 1094-C and 1095-C forms were released in September 2016, as were the final forms for 1094-B, 1095-B, 1094-C, and 1095-C. The reporting requirements are in Sections 6055 and 6056 of the ACA.
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Topics:
health insurance,
ACA,
PPACA reporting,
Danielle Capilla,
applicable large employers,
ACA reporting,
IRS Form 6055 and 6056
Employers that are subject to the McNamara-O’Hara Service Contract Act (SCA), Davis-Bacon Act (DBA), and Davis-Bacon Related Acts (Related Acts), and who are considered an applicable large employer (ALE) under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) must ensure that they meet the requirements of all three acts, despite the fact that the interplay between them can be confusing and misunderstood. The Department of Labor has provided guidance for these employers based on two U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) documents: its December 28, 2015, Notice 2015-87 (DOL Notice) and its March 30, 2016, All Agency Memorandum Number 220 (DOL Memo).
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Topics:
ACA,
PPACA,
employer shared responsibility,
Danielle Capilla,
applicable large employers,
McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act,
DBA,
wage and fringe benefit requirements,
Davis-Bacon Act,
SCA
UBA’s compliance team leverages the collective expertise of its independent partner firms to advise 36,000 employers and their 5 million employees. Lately, a common question from employers is: How does an ALE determine whether or not a newly hired variable hour employee should be offered benefits?
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Topics:
group health insurance,
Danielle Capilla,
applicable large employers,
variable-hour employee,
benefits compliance
Applicable large employers and self-funded employers of all sizes have now completed the first round of required IRS reporting under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA requires individuals to have health insurance, while applicable large employers (ALEs) are required to offer health benefits to their full-time employees.
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Topics:
ACA,
PPACA,
IRS Reporting Rules,
premium tax subsidy,
employer shared responsibility,
minimum value coverage,
applicable large employers
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), individuals are required to have health insurance while applicable large employers (ALEs) are required to offer health benefits to their full-time employees.
In order for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to verify that (1) individuals have the required minimum essential coverage, (2) individuals who request premium tax credits are entitled to them, and (3) ALEs are meeting their shared responsibility (play or pay) obligations, employers with 50 or more full-time or full-time equivalent employees and insurers will be required to report on the health coverage they offer.
Read More
Topics:
ACA,
PPACA,
PPACA reporting,
applicable large employers,
IRS Form 1094-C
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), individuals are required to have health insurance, while applicable large employers (ALEs) are required to offer health benefits to their full-time employees. In order for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to verify that (1) individuals have the required minimum essential coverage, (2) individuals who request premium tax credits are entitled to them, and (3) ALEs are meeting their shared responsibility (play or pay) obligations, employers with 50 or more full-time or full-time equivalent employees and insurers will be required to report on the health coverage they offer.
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Topics:
ACA,
minimum essential coverage,
employer shared responsibility,
Danielle Capilla,
Affordable Care Act,
applicable large employers,
ACA reporting,
IRS Form 6055 and 6056
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires applicable large employers (ALEs) to offer full-time employees health coverage, or pay one of two employer shared responsibility penalties. An ALE is an employer with 50 or more full-time or full-time equivalent employees (for 2015, this threshold is 100). A full-time employee is an employee who works 30 hours or more a week.
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Topics:
ACA,
PPACA Affordable Care Act,
leave of absence,
employer shared responsibility,
applicable large employers,
counting employees