{"id":1137,"date":"2009-06-13T22:27:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T02:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2009-06-13T22:27:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T02:27:02","slug":"irs-provides-guidance-on-voluntary-continuation-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2009\/06\/irs-provides-guidance-on-voluntary-continuation-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Provides Guidance on Voluntary Continuation Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Internal Revenue Service (IRS)<\/a> has released <a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/n-09-271.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Notice 2009-27, <\/a><\/span><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/n-09-271.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Premium assistance for COBRA benefits<\/a><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\">. Pursuant to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or ARRA, certain involuntarily terminated employees are eligible for employer-provided subsidies to help pay for their Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) continuation coverage. Employers may then claim a credit on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/pub\/irs-pdf\/f941.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form 941<\/a> to be reimbursed for the assistance provided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\">In recently issued guidance, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">IRS<\/a> stated that when an employer\u00a0voluntarily provides\u00a0continuation coverage when the plan is not subject to &#8220;COBRA continuation coverage&#8221;, then the subsidy does not apply to the voluntary coverage. Contact <a href=\"mailto:info@visionpayroll.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Payroll<\/a> if you have any questions on the COBRA premium reduction credit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released Notice 2009-27, Premium assistance for COBRA benefits. Pursuant to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or ARRA, certain involuntarily terminated employees are eligible for employer-provided subsidies to help pay for their Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) continuation coverage. Employers may then claim a credit on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[795,819,545,548,321,842],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}