Benefits Bulletin Now Online
The latest issue of Benefits Bulletin is now available on the Employee Benefits website.
- Peter Baxter explains in his column how outside pressures and trends make modest base rate increases in 2016 necessary for some group benefit plans and the Retirement Security (RS) Plan
- The Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax reporting requirements and what your cooperative’s responsibilities are depending on its size and type of plan funding—and check out the decision tree to help you determine which tax forms to file
- Preparations co-ops can do now to be prepared for ACA tax reporting
- What co-ops need to be doing now that 2016 annual renewal is in full swing
- What your co-op needs to do to keep COBRA administration by UMR or elect it for the first time
- How ACA maximum out-of-pocket requirements affect NRECA high-deductible health plans
- Why your co-op may want to consider VSP vision plans, especially because of their broad network access
- Why the Safe Harbor provision might be good for your co-op’s 401(k) Plan and what you need to start doing now to adopt it
- Acknowledging distribution of your co-op’s 2015 NRECA Medical Plan SMMs, if you haven’t done so already
A printed copy of Benefits Bulletin also will be mailed.
If you have questions, contact the Member Contact Center at 866.673.2299 or contactcenter@nreca.coop.