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Urgent Delivery: USPS Postmark Change Affects Benefit Plans (PDF)
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[Guidance Overview]
Feb. 16, 2026

"[To] receive the true benefit of the mailbox rule in litigation, a plan sponsor must ensure that a postmark is placed on or before the deadline to provide a required notice. Plan sponsors can no longer assume that as long as it was mailed by that date, it would also be postmarked on that date.... [P]lan administrators might consider [these] steps to ensure any required notices are postmarked timely[.]"  MORE >>

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