Ken Diller

Normally, medical plan elections can roll over from year to year. However, the last couple years our company required employees to elect or decline medical coverage at open enrollment. I believe they wanted to get an affirmative answer, one way or another, with the advent of Affordable Care Act requirements. Given some of the uncertainties at the time, I was okay with forcing people to make an OE election. However, does anyone know of a reason or rule where by we should continue to do this practice? I would prefer to revert back to roll over elections again, but I want to be sure I'm not missing anything. Required? Good practice or bad? Thoughts welcome. Thanks.