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May 9, 2016 If an employee does get to do work on behalf of the company while on-call, it’s clear that his or her employer, in order to comply with the Affordable Care Act, must credit those hours and track that time toward their eligibility for health insurance. The challenge comes in when an employer [...]
By Helen Karakoudas | ACA Education Director May 9, 2016 When there are compensation programs that are based on output rather than hours, the tracking of time toward an employee’s eligibility for health insurance can be a challenge for an employer required to comply with the Affordable Care Act. In these situations, IRS regulations for [...]
Content updated May 30, 2018 In its regulations for enforcing the Affordable Care Act, the IRS singles out three situations of unpaid absence from the job that all employers who must be ACA-compliant need to take into account when tracking an employee’s eligibility for health insurance: Absence to serve on a jury [...]
By Helen Karakoudas | ACA Education DirectorMay 6, 2016Why is all of what we have to sort through for Affordable Care Act compliance so complicated and fluid?That’s a question we consistently hear from the business professionals using our software to comply with just one slice of the health law – the IRS reporting obligation under the [...]
By Helen Karakoudas | ACA Education DirectorOriginal post on March 25, 2016In all the years since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law – six now – the ACA birthday we’re marking this week is the first to come during the filing season for the IRS form that the ACA introduced:The anxiety-stirring 1095-C.Yes, it’s [...]
By Helen Karakoudas | ACA Education Director, Integrity Data March 11, 2016 Whether you have already sent 1095-C forms to employees – or are close to getting them postmarked by March 31, 2016, be prepared for one more possible Affordable Care Act reporting to-do this year: Managing employee forms for ACA compliance that happen to [...]
By Helen Karakoudas | ACA Education Director, Integrity DataMarch 10, 2016As March 31, 2016 approaches in the world of Affordable Care Act reporting, where one head-scratcher about Form 1095-C best practices often compounds another, a different kind of perplexity is now unfolding.Counting down to the date marking the 1095-C breather that everyone welcomed for Tax [...]
Content updated June 11, 2018 By now most employers understand that they must comply with the Affordable Care Act. They also realize that there are potentially serious penalties for: Offers of health insurance that should have been made at a certain time but were not. Offers of health insurance that were made, but did not [...]
By Helen Karakoudas | ACA Education Director, Integrity Data February 24, 2016 We printed the ACA pay-or-play regulations the very day they were published: February 12, 2014. By that time, we already were students of the voluminous detail in the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate. Our software had been in beta testing for [...]
Content updated April 25, 2018 We know that you often hear of employers’ pay-or-play penalties under the Affordable Care Act in terms of $2,000 a year per full-time employee (for offering no coverage) and $3,000 a year per full-time employee (for offering non-compliant coverage). As with all mentions of numbers, these dollar figures need background [...]
