Become A Certified COBRA Administrator!
Master the rules, timelines, notices, and compliance requirements of federal COBRA regulations with this comprehensive online COBRA Training & Certification Program from HRTrainingCenter.com.
Designed for HR professionals, benefits administrators, payroll teams, third-party administrators (TPAs), business owners, and compliance specialists, this self-paced online course provides practical training on how to properly administer COBRA continuation coverage while reducing employer risk and compliance exposure.
Participants gain real-world knowledge of COBRA qualifying events, notice obligations, election procedures, premium administration requirements, and best practices for handling employee healthcare continuation coverage. Upon successful completion, participants may earn the Certified COBRA Administrator designation and qualify for SHRM and HRCI recertification credits.
Why COBRA Compliance Training Matters
Compliance with COBRA is essential as there are various fines, penalties, and timelines for which proper compliance helps to reduce your organization's liability.
COBRA administration mistakes can expose employers to significant penalties, legal claims, and employee complaints. HR professionals responsible for benefits administration must understand complex federal continuation coverage rules, notification deadlines, and documentation requirements.
COBRA training teaches HR professionals and benefits administrators how to comply with federal COBRA continuation coverage requirements, including qualifying events, notice deadlines, premium administration, and employee healthcare continuation rights.
What You Will Learn With This COBRA Certification Course
This course provides practical guidance you can immediately apply in the workplace. Essentially, you will:
- Understand employer COBRA obligations
- Reduce compliance and litigation risk
- Properly administer continuation coverage
- Avoid costly notice and election errors
The course combines legal requirements with practical workplace examples, tips, and quizzes to help participants confidently manage COBRA administration responsibilities. Here are some of the key concepts:
- COBRA qualifying events
- Employer and plan administrator responsibilities
- Initial and election notice requirements
- COBRA election timelines and deadlines
- Premium payment administration
- Grace periods and termination rules
- Dependent coverage requirements
- Medicare coordination rules
- Disability extension provisions
- Recordkeeping and documentation best practices
- COBRA administration for HR departments and TPAs
- Common compliance mistakes and how to avoid them
Earn Your Certified COBRA Administrator Designation!
Many employers value specialized compliance certifications because they demonstrate current knowledge of federal employment and benefits regulations. Participants who successfully complete the course and examination earn the Certified COBRA Administrator designation.
What You'll Learn:More About Our COBRA Training Course
Who Should Take This Online COBRA Training Course?
This course is ideal for:
- HR managers
- HR generalists
- Benefits administrators
- Payroll professionals
- Leave administrators
- Office managers
- Third-party administrators (TPAs)
- Insurance and benefits professionals
- Business owners
- Compliance professionals
Professionals responsible for employee benefits or leave administration will benefit from the practical compliance guidance provided throughout the course.
Benefits Of Our Flexible Online COBRA Training
This self-paced online COBRA certification course allows you to complete training on your own schedule. The course is designed to help busy HR professionals gain practical COBRA compliance skills without disrupting work schedules. Benefits include:
- 24/7 online access
- Self-paced learning format
- Easy-to-follow compliance guidance
- Practical real-world examples, tips, and procedural recommendations
- Interactive quizzes to help ensure learning
- Real-world examples
- FREE updates when laws change
What's Included With The COBRA Compliance Training Program
Besides the great training, here are some of the additional benefits:
- Award-winning, easy-to-use interface that includes numerous "Administrative Tips" and examples that highlight key learning areas
- Procedural recommendations that provide key processes and procedures
- Special "Bookmark" feature that allows you to learn at your own pace and quickly return to training if you are interrupted
- Interactive Q&A with answer rationale provided to help ensure learning and check your progress along the way
- Self-paced option allows learners to study on their schedule
- Materials available anytime, anywhere
- Ideal for anyone responsible for COBRA compliance, including new or aspiring HR professionals, Office Managers with HR duties, business owners
- Eight hours of HRCI PHR and SPHR re-certification credits
- Eight hours of SHRM PDC re-certification credits
- Organizations enrolling three or more individuals also receive our Management Interface at no cost, allowing managers to view employee progress, test scores, and incorrectly answered test questions
- Included exam to earn a "Certified COBRA Administrator" designation
- Group discounts available
- FREE updates when the laws change helps your organization to stay up-to-date with regulatory changes - and avoid costly compliance errors and lawsuits!
FYI: This course is sold as an annual subscription with four components: the training course itself; access to all training materials as a resource for one full year; free updates whenever the law changes, and; a Certified Administrator designation. Each year thereafter, you have the option to continue access to your materials, updates, and a new Certificate for only $99 per year!
Further, organizations with 10 or more employees - either for your own company or as a TPA - requiring COBRA training can customize this course. Please call us at 770-410-1219 for details.
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Course Agenda Frequently Asked Questions
What is COBRA training?
COBRA training teaches HR and benefits professionals how to properly administer federal COBRA continuation coverage requirements, including qualifying events, notices, deadlines, premium administration, and compliance procedures.
Is this COBRA course online?
Yes. This is a self-paced online COBRA certification course that can be completed from any location with internet access.
Who should take COBRA certification training?
HR professionals, benefits administrators, payroll personnel, TPAs, business owners, and anyone responsible for employee healthcare continuation coverage administration.
Does this course offer SHRM or HRCI credits?
Yes. Eligible participants may earn SHRM and HRCI recertification credits through this training program.
What is a COBRA qualifying event?
Qualifying events may include termination of employment, reduction in work hours, divorce, death, or other events that cause loss of group health coverage eligibility.
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Top FAQs
In business since the mid-1990's, we have over 25 years of experience delivering high-quality training content via seminar, webinar, online, and other formats. Each of our courses are delivered by an industry expert who will share his or her years of experience to help you be in compliance, smarter, and more productive, and almost all offer SHRM and HRCI credits.
Payroll is much more than just handing out paychecks, and includes a variety of responsibilities such as handling garnishments, travel pay, multi-state taxation, unclaimed paychecks, and much more in a timely and accurate fashion.
In addition to ensuring that employees are paid correctly and on time, "Payroll" has numerous time and reporting requirements. The primary payroll areas include paychecks, reporting, operations, and management.
Payroll Administrators must be able to:
- Properly "classify" workers
- Apply the various exemptions
- Calculate gross pay and properly make deductions
- Correctly identify, pay, and withhold taxes for employees
- Administer deferred compensation, cafeteria plan, sick pay, and other compensation
- Handle stock options, expense reimbursements, relocation, and other "expenses"
- Follow the proper policies, procedures, and documentation requirements for garnishments and levies
- Properly complete and file all required reporting requirements
- Correctly complete year-end requirements and establish year-beginning requirements
- Implement and maintain fraud, audit, disaster recovery, and record retention processes and procedures
While many payroll-related regulations are federally-governed, there also are many state requirements, including those for handling garnishment, final paychecks, and unclaimed paychecks. Each state's requirements differ in the details, so be sure to check your state's requirements by clicking the applicable link(s) at the bottom of this page.
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