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Tool: Resources for Keeping Up With COBRA Changes

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1. COBRA Costs Will Mount as Layoffs Continue
COBRA headaches and related bills will swell depending upon layoff trends and the outcome of legislative proposals.

2. Commentary: COBRA Without End, Amen
Baby boomers may choose Medicare, but their younger spouses will opt for employer health coverage through COBRA. And that’s where an employer’s trouble starts.

Tool: Resources for Keeping Up With COBRA Changes

While the mechanics of the law may have been presented as being straightforward, the short time frame for implementation means employers are scrambling to catch up, even as the departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services provide compliance guidelines.
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ost employers offering health care to workers in the U.S. are now required to comply with the COBRA provisions of the $787 billion stimulus package signed in February by President Barack Obama. The deadline for compliance was March 1 for many employers. While the mechanics of the law may have been presented as being straightforward, the short time frame for implementation means employers are scrambling to catch up, even as the departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services provide compliance guidelines.

Here are some resources to help your organization keep up with these new regulations:

Workforce Management and sister-publication stories

Dear Workforce: How Does the Stimulus Bill Change COBRA Provisions?

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Workforce Management on-demand webcast (fee required)

The COBRA Provisions of the Economic Stimulus Bill: What They Mean for HR and What You Must do Now

Internal Revenue Service resources

IRS FAQs for employers

New IRS Form 941

New IRS Form 941 instructions

Department of Labor resources

COBRA assistance under ARRA

COBRA continuation health coverage FAQs for employers

COBRA continuation health coverage FAQs for employees

Job-loss poster
COBRA model notices

Mercer Health and Benefits Update

Update: New COBRA premium subsidy and notice requirements

Law firms’ updates and advisories

Troutman Sanders Advisory: Stimulus Bill Provides Government Subsidy for COBRA Premiums, Part 1

Troutman Sanders Advisory: Stimulus Bill Provides Government Subsidy for COBRA Premiums, Part 2

Jackson Lewis Legal Update

Littler Mendelson ASAP: Stimulus Package: An In-Depth Look at the New COBRA Subsidy in the ARRA

Choate Hall & Stewart Alert

Epstein Becker Green Update

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