New Law Provides Additional Flexibility for Health FSAs and Dependent Care Assistance Programs

This article was published by the IRS. The Internal Revenue Service is providing greater flexibility, due to the pandemic, to employee benefit plans offering health flexible spending arrangements (FSAs) or dependent care assistance programs. Under the COVID-related Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2020, these plans now have additional discretion in 2021 and 2022 [...]

IRS Suspends Requirement to Repay Excess Advance Payments of the 2020 Premium Tax Credit

This article was published by the IRS. The premium tax credit helps pay for health insurance coverage bought from the Health Insurance Marketplace. Eligible people can choose to have all, some, or none of the estimated credit paid in advance directly to their insurance company on their behalf. These payments – which are called advance payments [...]

IRS Extends Additional Tax Deadlines to May 17

This article was published by the IRS.  Following the extension of the filing and payment deadline for individuals to May 17, 2021, the IRS announced other tax deadline extensions to the same date. Here's what's affected: Contributions to IRAs and health savings accounts People now automatically have until May 17, 2021, to make 2020 contributions to [...]

Changes to Health Care Spending Available Under CARES Act

This article was published by the IRS.  New rules under the CARES Act provide flexibility for health care spending that may be helpful in the current environment where more people may need at-home services due to measures to fight the coronavirus. Telehealth and High Deductible Health Plans Under the CARES Act, a high deductible health plan [...]

Town of Plymouth’s “COVID-19 Daily Update” – June 22, 2020

In this week’s Monday episode (June 22, 2020) of the Town of Plymouth’s “COVID-19 Daily Update,” Heather reported that there was a lot of movement in various initiatives over the past week. The SBA finally updated their website to include the new PPP loan forgiveness application, as well as the EZ version of the application. The [...]

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