{"id":7148,"date":"2013-09-30T20:32:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T00:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=7148"},"modified":"2013-09-30T20:32:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T00:32:21","slug":"model-notices-need-not-be-provided-to-former-employees-who-have-elected-cobra-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2013\/09\/model-notices-need-not-be-provided-to-former-employees-who-have-elected-cobra-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Model Notices Need Not Be Provided To Former Employees Who Have Elected COBRA Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><div class=\"img alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-7150\" style=\"width:150px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130930.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130930-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Model Notices Need Not Be Provided To Former Employees Who Have Elected COBRA Coverage<\/div>\r\n<\/div>Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as the Affordable Care Act <\/span>Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, most employers are required to provide one of two notices to all employees. Guidance was provided to employers by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">US Department of Labor (DOL)<\/span><\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tr13-02.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Technical Release No. 2013-02, <em>Guidance on the Notice to Employees of Coverage Options under Fair Labor Standards Act \u00a718B and Updated Model Election Notice under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Notice Not Required for Former Employees Who Have Elected COBRA Coverage<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Although all employees, regardless of plan enrollment status or availability, must receive a notice, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">DOL<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tr13-02.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Technical Release No. 2013-02<\/a> clarifies that \u201c[e]mployers are not required to provide a separate notice to dependents or other individuals who are or may become eligible for coverage under the plan but who are not employees.\u201d Therefore, former employees eligible for coverage need not be notified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Vision Payroll for Further Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contact <a href=\"mailto:info@visionpayroll.com\">Vision Payroll<\/a> if you have further questions on the notice to employees of coverage options required under the ACA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Model Notices Need Not Be Provided To Former Employees Who Have Elected COBRA Coverage Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as the Affordable Care Act Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, most employers are required to provide one of two [&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":[545,548,1747,1753,1223,1751,89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148"}],"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=7148"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7154,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions\/7154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}