{"id":3317,"date":"2010-06-18T17:08:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T21:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=3317"},"modified":"2010-06-18T17:08:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T21:08:58","slug":"question-of-the-week-are-health-insurance-costs-required-to-be-reported-on-form-w-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2010\/06\/question-of-the-week-are-health-insurance-costs-required-to-be-reported-on-form-w-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week: Are Health Insurance Costs Required To Be Reported on Form W-2?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s question comes from Beverly, a small-business owner. We pay health insurance costs for our employees. I heard there was a change in reporting health insurance costs under the new law. Are health insurance costs required to be reported on <a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fw2-2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form W-2<\/a>? Answer: Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), beginning in the 2011 tax year (reported to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Social Security Administration (SSA)<\/a> in 2012), employers will be required to start including the aggregate cost for \u201capplicable employer-sponsored coverage\u201d for each employee on that employee\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fw2-2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement<\/a>. There is no requirement to include this information on the 2010 <a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fw2-2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form W-2<\/a>, to be reported to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">SSA<\/a> in 2011. Contact <a href=\"mailto:info@visionpayroll.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Payroll<\/a> if you have any further questions on <a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fw2-2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Form W-2<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s question comes from Beverly, a small-business owner. We pay health insurance costs for our employees. I heard there was a change in reporting health insurance costs under the new law. Are health insurance costs required to be reported on Form W-2? Answer: Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), beginning in [&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":[224,567,1223,44,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317"}],"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=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3321,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions\/3321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}