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Family Events: What to Do (and Not Do) When Employees Marry, Have Kids, and Divorce

Employees get married or enter into domestic partnerships, they have kids by birth or adoption, their kids leave home and finish school, and employees get divorced or dissolve their domestic partnerships. Family events affect the rights of employees and dependents under cafeteria plans, group health plans (including major medical plans, health FSAs, and HRAs), HSAs, and group term life insurance. Family events give rise to employer issues and obligations under COBRA, HIPAA, ERISA, tax, and other federal laws, and plans have to deal with them daily. Using reallife scenarios and checklists, this 90minute intermediatelevel webcast is designed to help employers and plan administrators recognize both the obvious and notsoobvious employee benefits issues and obligations and to give them the tools to deal with those issues! Heres some of what well cover: Group health plan and cafeteria plan enrollment and election change issues, including deadlines for enrolling and changing elections, when enrollments become effective, and paperwork May benefits continue for a former spouse or partner after divorce or dissolution of a domestic partnership? COBRA, HIPAA, and ERISA requirements triggered by new enrollments, divorce, and other family events Do life events automatically change plan beneficiary designation forms? May a divorced parent continue to cover a child who is in the custody of the other parent? Can other benefits of a spouse, domestic partner, or child affect an employees benefits rights? What do employees need to be told about how family events may affect their benefits (including imputed income issues), and how do they need to be told? Q & A Feature Feel free to email us your questions in advance of the webcast, and well answer as many as time permits! Speakers Thomas P. McCormick, Esq. EBIAs Founder and Chairman Chris Williams, Esq. Senior Editor and Director of Education at EBIA Mr. McCormick is a contributing author of several of EBIAs manuals, including the Cafeteria Plans manual. Ms. Williams is the editor and a contributing author of EBIAs HIPAA Portability, Privacy & Security manual. System Requirements Attendees must have a telephone to hear the seminar speakers (we provide a tollfree 800 number) and a Web connection to view the slide presentation (a PDF copy of the slides will be available for download the morning of the seminar). Well be using WebEx Event Manager for this seminar. Youll need to install WebEx software to view the Web portion of the seminar (details will be emailed to you before the event).

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