Benefits Communications

New and Updated

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  Legal Timetable

  Revised Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) Templates Required

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  How To

  How to Address Financial Wellness in the Workplace

  This How To details the steps an employer can take to address financial wellness in the workplace and establish a program designed to best help its employees.

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  Legal Timetable

  DOL Electronic Disclosure Final Rule Relating to ERISA Takes Effect

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  Checklists

  Ensure Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) and Benefit Providers Address Employee Mental Health Checklist

  Employers can use this checklist to ensure that their employee assistance programs (EAPs) and benefit providers are adequately equipped to address employee mental health challenges that have been exacerbated by COVID-19.

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  Legal Timetable

  Louisiana Amends Law on Electronic Delivery of Insurance Documents and Notices

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  Letters and Forms

  Health Care Coverage Waiver Form

  This form will allow employers to keep track of employees that decline employer-sponsored health coverage.

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  Posters and Notices

  Qualified Small Employer HRA Model Notice

  Under the 21st Century Cures Act, a small employer that has fewer than 50 full-time employees (including full-time equivalent employees) and that does not offer group health insurance to its active employees may provide stand-alone qualified small employer health reimbursement arrangements (QSEHRAs). An employer may use this model notice to fulfill the annual notice requirement.

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  Letters and Forms

  New York Temporary Disability Benefits Law Statement of Rights (DB-271S)

  As mandated by the New York State Workers' Compensation Board, employers covered by the state temporary disability benefits law must provide the New York Temporary Disability Benefits Law Statement of Rights (DB-271S).

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  Letters and Forms

  San Francisco, California, Paid Parental Leave Form

  Covered San Francisco employers must provide this form to employees under San Francisco's Paid Parental Leave Ordinance.

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  Posters and Notices

  California Notice of Election to Make Voluntary Plan Applicable to All Employees, DE 2520CV

  An employer with a certain percentage of employees who have consented to a voluntary plan for payment of disability insurance and family leave benefits, must provide written notice to new hires.