Late Thursday night, President Obama signed a measure that extends the COBRA premium subsidy for another two months — to May 31, 2010.
The subsidy had expired on March 31, 2010 when Congress failed to act on this measure before its recess. However, yesterday, Congress approved a bill that covers all those who have
Earlier today, I was fortunate to give a teleconference on the new COBRA subsidy rules for BLR. Not surprisingly, there were still lots of questions at the end of it.
One of the biggest issues that people had concerned who was eligible to receive this assistance. As I’ve indicated previously, only those employees who
Although I’ve been sounding the alarm bells for the last two months or so, on the new COBRA subsidy provisions, I’ve had informal discussions with various colleagues that suggest that some employers are either ignorant of the new rules or do not believe that the rules apply to them. Here are three areas why most
Among employment law professionals and human resource personnel, the last year has been full of changes. Among the more technical changes are thenew COBRA Subsidy provisions that were passed with the stimulus bill earlier this year.
April 18th is a big deadline for some of the im
plementation of the provisions — providing notices to some former employees