2025 Employee Benefits Law Update - 19th Annual Advanced Seminar

Seminar: ID# 1003849
Pricing: $1,575.00 Early Bird: $1,150.00
About This Course:
This two-day Employee Benefits Law Update provides a thorough update that analyzes up-to-the-minute issues and developments along with their real-world impact and the impact of recent changes, directives, and regulations.
As a result of new developments and court decisions; intensified scrutiny by enforcement agencies; dramatic increases in benefits-related litigation; and severe liabilities for missteps, the information presented in these seminars is as timely as it is critical.
What You'll Learn:- Learn the critical employee benefits issues facing U.S. employers in these dramatically changing times.
- Discover what issues the agencies are auditing and how best to prepare your team for in-depth scrutiny.
- Learn how to assess the viability of new benefit offerings (onsite clinics, telehealth, and account-based plans) and whether they make sense for your organization.
This seminar will cover:
- Washington Update: What's New? Recent Guidance and Current Employee Benefit Projects
- Qualified Plans
- Identifying Plan Errors and Developing Solutions to the Errors
- IRS and DOL Audits: How to Manage
- Plan Administrators: Enhancing Communication and Avoiding Pitfalls
- When the Auditors Come Knocking: Top 10 Health Plan Traps to Avoid in 2022
- Health Care Reform Compliance Boot Camp
- Deja-vu all over again: The Brave New World of Onsite Clinics: What compliance issues and traps arise in connection with onsite clinics
- HIPAA Compliance and Big Data Breach: How to Limit Your Exposure.
- Wellness Programs and Disease Management: Overcoming Legal Compliance Hurdles
- Discrimination Testing Basics
Top FAQs
There are several: employees get beneficial tax treatment on certain expenses, while employers get to cost share health care premiums and save on reduced payroll tax expenses.
A Cafeteria Plan is an employer-sponsored benefit that complies with Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code.
Yes. Additionally, there are certain rules regarding what qualifies, status changes, use of funds, and more.
Yes. There are also notice and reporting requirements to have a qualified Cafeteria Plan.
Cafeteria Plans allow employees to pay certain qualified medical expenses on a pre-tax basis.
Cafeteria Plans offer tax savings on certain health insurance premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus certain costs for health and dependent care
Continuing Education Credits:
Click the 'Credits' tab above for information on PHR/SPHR, PDCs, and other CE credits offered by taking this course.