Election 2016 is around the corner. Federal law does not require employers to provide their employees with time off to vote. However, many states have voting leave laws that allow employees to take time off to vote in certain circumstances.  Continue Reading

Effectively communicating the benefits you offer is a huge part of attracting and retaining a younger workforce. These are five ways to digitize your benefits packages to attract and retain NextGen talent.  Continue Reading

Affordable Care Act (ACA) reporting forms will be due soon. The IRS released the 2016 draft Forms 1094-C and 1095-C, which gives you ample time to familiarize yourself with the ACA reporting forms and collect all of your company data before submitting them.

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FLSA Changes Ahead - Are you prepared? Please join Eastern Benefits Group for this free webinar, as we discuss these changes and what employers need to do to be prepared. Continue Reading

Every 2-3 years, Eastern Benefits Group administers our employer benefits benchmarking survey that generates hundreds of responses across industries and organization sizes. Want to know how your business stacks up against other companies of your size in your industry when it comes to employee benefits? Take our 2016 Eastern Benefits Group Employee Benefits Benchmark Survey. Continue Reading

The IRS just issued Notice 2016-4 which delays the reporting due dates for ACA returns. This is a very welcome gift for many employer groups that do not feel ready to process their 2015 ACA returns.

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Eastern Benefits Group provides a sample email to consider sending to your employees about new ACA tax forms they will need to file their 2015 income tax returns — and to warn them not to throw them away!

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As we begin Thanksgiving preparations this week to share time with family and friends, we at Eastern Benefits Group would like to thank you. We so greatly appreciate your support and trust in our team. In 2015, your support has helped EBG accomplish a number of things we would like to share with you.  Continue Reading

The Affordable Care Act will begin imposing the so called “Cadillac Tax” on high cost, employer sponsored group health plans in 2018. The Cadillac tax is an excise tax applied to value of high cost group health plans. This tax would be applied to plans with values that exceed $10,200 for individual plans or $27,500 for family plans. The tax would be applied to any amounts in excess of these thresholds. For many employers, it will not be difficult to exceed these dollar thresholds.  Continue Reading

Last week the IRS released the FINAL 2015 versions of the forms 1095-C, 1094-C, and their corresponding instructions.  All Applicable Large Employers (ALEs) are required to report information to the IRS regarding their employees and offers of health insurance for 2015.  Continue Reading