Federal COBRA Subsidy Extended Again

President Obama has signed into law the Bill, H.R. 4851, which has a section that extends the federal COBRA subsidy. Individuals “involuntarily terminated” between April 1 and May 31, 2010 are now eligible for this subsidy. To learn more about this extension or to download the notices, visit the Department of Labor’s website. We have [...]

Federal COBRA Subsidy Extended

President Obama has signed into law the Temporary Extension Act, which extends the federal COBRA subsidy that was to expire on March 1, 2010 to March 31, 2010. Please be aware of two new notifications: One for plans to notify who is eligible as of October 31, 2009 or later due to subsidy changes; and a [...]

Federal COBRA Subsidy Extension

 President Obama has signed into the 2010 Defence Appropriations Act, which has a section that extends the federal COBRA subsidy: COBRA recipients whose eligibility was scheduled to end on December 31, 2009 will now be extended through February 28, 2010. The subsidy period was extended from 9 months to 15 months. Those whose subsidy ended [...]

New COBRA Subsidy Reminder

We just want to remind everyone that employers have until April 18th to provide notice and election rights to qualifying individuals.  Notice templates can be downloaded from the Department of Labor’s website: http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/COBRAmodelnotice.html. For questions about COBRA, call our Customer Service Department at 800.433.0088 or email at cs@bestlife.com. For information about how the new subsidy [...]

More on COBRA

In addition to posting a flyer we will be sending to BEST Life employer groups, we would like to share the following links from the United States Department of Labor.  Again, if you have any questions about COBRA, contact us at 800.433.0088 or through email at cs@bestlife.com. Here’s our flyer, which explains to employers what the [...]

Trying to understand the changes to COBRA?

Now that President Obama has signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, we’re all scrambling to get an understanding of what these changes mean to employers and when these changes go into effect.  We would like to put an end to the scrambling by providing this Compliance Flash Newsletter provided by CONEXIS.  It [...]