9 12, 2015

ACA math to check the need for compliance: Excluding seasonal workers from ALE count

2019-04-10T10:38:52-05:00December 9th, 2015|ACA Tracking, Reporting Compliance|0 Comments

Content updated May 29, 2018 When counting heads to see whether a business is large enough to need to comply with the Affordable Care Act, a company has to start by looking at the service hours of every worker. But in the tally toward that all-important threshold for an Applicable Large Employer – 50 full-time [...]

9 12, 2015

ACA math to check the need for compliance: Excluding owners from ALE count

2019-04-10T10:39:02-05:00December 9th, 2015|ACA Tracking, Reporting Compliance|0 Comments

Content updated May 31, 2018 When a company is determining ALE status to see whether they are large enough to need to comply with the Affordable Care Act, they should consider every employee when calculating the headcount. In the tally toward that all-important threshold for an Applicable Large Employer, 50 full-time employees including equivalents, – [...]

10 11, 2015

Excluding veterans from the FTE count helps employers avoid ACA mandate, lessen ACA penalty risk

2021-08-05T16:08:55-05:00November 10th, 2015|ACA Tracking, Reporting Compliance|0 Comments

Content updated on April 24, 2018 Since 1919, the number 11 has been at the center of awareness of veterans in the United States. Remembering that on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Allies and Germany signed the armistice that ended fighting in World War I. Therefore, Americans [...]

1 11, 2015

1095-C reporting: Determining a company’s ALE status

2023-10-24T12:56:57-05:00November 1st, 2015|ACA Tracking, Reporting Compliance|0 Comments

Updated 10/24/2023 Whether this is your third ACA filing or your first filing; it’s never a bad idea to review the guidelines for ACA compliance. Especially if you are a smaller company, who is close to the ALE (Applicable Large Employer) threshold. In helping employers understand these basic IRS rules for ACA reporting, we [...]

27 10, 2015

Budget deal primes repeal of ACA automatic enrollment requirement

2019-04-10T10:36:09-05:00October 27th, 2015|ACA Tracking, Reporting Compliance|0 Comments

Click on the image to read a tucked-away Affordable Care Act concession in the October 26, 2015 agreement that the White House reached with congressional leaders over budget reconciliation. October 27, 2015 – A much-contested provision in the employer mandate of the Affordable Care Act appears close to repeal after the budget agreement that [...]

21 10, 2015

What’s New for our Affordable Care Act Compliance Solution – October 2015

2019-03-08T19:47:23-06:00October 21st, 2015|ACA Tracking, Reporting Compliance|0 Comments

Integrity Data is pleased to announce that our Affordable Care Act Compliance Solution has been improved with some great new features. We have added a dashboard and alerting functionality as well as company specific employee information. Our new dashboard contains some critical ACA KPI’s that will help employers identify at a glance important information, like [...]

15 10, 2015

Integrity Data first software company to pass e-filing tests for Affordable Care Act returns

2019-04-10T10:36:29-05:00October 15th, 2015|ACA Tracking, Reporting Compliance, Payroll and HR Software|0 Comments

In a post last week, we told the story of how we learned that we were only the third U.S. organization to earn e-filing credentials in the new IRS system called AIR (Affordable Care Act Information Returns). Because the pool of organizations testing in this new system is so big – insurers and employers in [...]

13 10, 2015

Tracking ACA Hours and Calculation

2023-01-10T12:02:48-06:00October 13th, 2015|ACA Tracking, Reporting Compliance|0 Comments

To know which employees the Affordable Care Act says that an employer must cover – and thereby get offers of coverage out soon enough to avoid IRS penalties – an employer can use the look-back eligibility-testing method. This method is a way of determining full-time status. Form 1095-C is the IRS form that documents [...]