{"id":3024,"date":"2010-04-30T07:32:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T11:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2010-04-30T07:32:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T11:32:05","slug":"question-of-the-week-when-does-the-cobra-subsidy-period-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2010\/04\/question-of-the-week-when-does-the-cobra-subsidy-period-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week: When Does the COBRA Subsidy Period End?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s question comes from Lisa, an office manager. We may need to layoff a few employees. Some of them may elect COBRA continuation coverage. I know there was a subsidy for employees laid off through March 31, but I just heard that the subsidy period was extended. When does the COBRA subsidy period end? As noted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Internal Revenue Service (IRS)<\/a>\u00a0in <a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ir-2010-052.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">IR-2010-052<\/a>, under The Continuing Extension Act of 2010, workers who are involuntarily terminated during April and May might be eligible for the sixty-five percent subsidy on COBRA continuation coverage. Eligible employees pay a reduced premium to their employer who then pays the difference. The employer may claim a credit on <a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/f941-202010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form 941<\/a> for the amount paid. Contact <a href=\"mailto:info@visionpayroll.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Payroll<\/a> for further information on the COBRA subsidy period extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s question comes from Lisa, an office manager. We may need to layoff a few employees. Some of them may elect COBRA continuation coverage. I know there was a subsidy for employees laid off through March 31, but I just heard that the subsidy period was extended. When does the COBRA subsidy period end? [&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":[795,819,545,548,528,321,1235,44,1234],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024"}],"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=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3027,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions\/3027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}