{"id":645,"date":"2009-04-10T10:25:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T14:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=645"},"modified":"2009-04-10T10:25:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T14:25:53","slug":"question-of-the-week-are-employees-covered-under-cal-cobra-eligible-for-the-arra-subsidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2009\/04\/question-of-the-week-are-employees-covered-under-cal-cobra-eligible-for-the-arra-subsidy\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week: Are Employees Covered under Cal-COBRA Eligible for the ARRA Subsidy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">This week\u2019s question comes from Renai, an office manager. We don\u2019t have enough employees to be covered under federal COBRA laws. We are covered by Cal-COBRA. Are employees covered under Cal-COBRA eligible for the ARRA subsidy? Answer: Pursuant to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or ARRA, certain involuntary 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 assistance provided. Cal-COBRA is a California law that applies to employers and group health plans that cover from 2 to 19 employees. Eligible employees may elect to continue their coverage for 36 months. Since ARRA applies to both federal COBRA and similar state laws, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edd.ca.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">California EDD<\/a> recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edd.ca.gov\/Payroll_Taxes\/COBRA_Expansion.htm\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> that employees who have elected Cal-COBRA coverage who meet the ARRA requirements are eligible to receive the subsidy. Contact <a href=\"mailto:info@visionpayroll.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Payroll<\/a> if you have any questions on Cal-COBRA.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s question comes from Renai, an office manager. We don\u2019t have enough employees to be covered under federal COBRA laws. We are covered by Cal-COBRA. Are employees covered under Cal-COBRA eligible for the ARRA subsidy? Answer: Pursuant to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or ARRA, certain involuntary terminated employees are eligible [&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":[795,819,852,545,548,210,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645"}],"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=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}