{"id":672,"date":"2009-04-15T08:18:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T12:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=672"},"modified":"2009-08-12T17:40:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T21:40:28","slug":"tip-of-the-week-deadline-approaches-for-notice-in-connection-with-extended-election-periods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2009\/04\/tip-of-the-week-deadline-approaches-for-notice-in-connection-with-extended-election-periods\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip of the Week: Deadline Approaches for Notice in Connection with Extended Election Periods"},"content":{"rendered":"

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) made changes to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) continuation health coverage. In certain situations, employers must pay 65% of the continuation premium and take a credit on<\/span> Form 941, Employer\u2019s QUARTERLY Federal Tax Return<\/a>. Plans subject to the Federal COBRA provisions must send the Notice in Connection with Extended Election Periods<\/a> to any assistance eligible individual (AEI)<\/a> (or any individual who would be an AEI<\/a> if a COBRA continuation election were in effect) who:<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Had a qualifying event at any time from September 1, 2008 through February 16, 2009; and<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    Either did not elect COBRA continuation coverage, or who elected it but subsequently discontinued COBRA.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This notice includes information on ARRA\u2019s additional election opportunity, as well as premium reduction information. This notice must be provided by April 18, 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Contact Vision Payroll<\/a> if you have any questions on the Notice in Connection with Extended Election Periods<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) made changes to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) continuation health coverage. In certain situations, employers must pay 65% of the continuation premium and take a credit on Form 941, Employer\u2019s QUARTERLY Federal Tax Return. Plans subject to the Federal COBRA provisions must […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[795,819,545,548,830,857,28,89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672"}],"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=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}