In April 2020 the DOL and IRS issued joint guidance to allow certain employee benefit deadlines to be extended during the COVID19 National Emergency. This impacted COBRA, special enrolment notifications and claim adjudication. Recent joint guidance has clarified that the time has run out for SOME of the deadlines but not all. Plan administrators and third-party administrators as well as other insurance professionals now find themselves with trying to determine which deadlines have ended and which deadlines to extend. Some events will need to be handled on an individual basis! The DOL and IRS have also highlighted that Plan Administrators do have fiduciary responsibilities to handle this right. Join us as we review the impact, issues and changes to employee benefit administration procedures that need to be implemented today.
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Business owners, CEO, CFO, Human Resource Managers, and staff, third party administrators or other benefit professionals who handle daily plan administration.
Robin Benton, has worked for 37 years in the welfare benefit administration and compliance industry. She spent 17 years in the insurance field, and worked in every aspect of the industry, including billing, product design, compliance and computer automation. The complex field of Federal Regulations, including communicating and implementing them efficiently, is her specialty.
As an industry expert, she had been responsible for training a national sales force, being a national speaker and helped develop programs to train other Third-Party Administrators, benefit and human resource professionals.
A small business owner and CEO of BCL Systems, Inc., she has helped small- to mid-sized companies navigate the confusing realm of Federal Regulations for over 20 years.