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[Guidance Overview]
Health Reform Update: Recent Changes and Challenges to the Affordable Care Act, May 9, 2011
"On April 13, 2011, the House of Representatives passed HR 1217, which would repeal the Prevention and Public Health Fund established by PPACA. The Prevention and Public Health Fund contains almost $18 bil.lion in mandatory spending, including $200 mil.lion for small business wellness plan grants, and is a major component of health reform." (Proskauer Rose LLP)


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[Guidance Overview]
PPACA Change to Medicare Part D Enrollment Period Impacts Notices of Creditable/Non-Creditable Coverage (PDF)
"The Medicare Part D enrollment period has been moved to October 15 through December 7 beginning with enrollment for 2012. This change will require plan sponsors to update their notices of creditable or non-creditable coverage and most likely will require plan sponsors to provide the notices by October 15, 2011." (Buck Consultants, LLC)

[Guidance Overview]
Ninth Circuit Finds Employer Has Burden of Proof When Denying Reinstatement After FMLA Leave
"The DOL amended its FMLA regulations effective January 16, 2009; however, the regulations discussed by the court were virtually unchanged in substance. Because the events in this case took place prior to the effective date of the amendments, the court cited the 2008 FMLA regulations." (Ford & Harrison LLP)

Benefits in General; Executive Compensation

[Guidance Overview]
Sixth Circuit Upholds Denial of ERISA-Based Income Protection Benefits; Plan Administrator Need Not Investigate Whether the Employer Violated FMLA
"As demonstrated by the Sixth Circuit's recent decision in Farhner v. United Transportation Union Discipline Income Protection Program, a well-drafted ERISA income protection or severance pay plan should enable the plan administrator to rely on the employer's stated reason for termination of an employee, rather than conducting an independent review of the facts regarding the termination." (Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP)

Milliman's Monthly Benefit News and Developments, May 2011 (PDF)
The newsletter provides a summary of the previous month's legislative, regulatory, and judicial information on employee benefits and upcoming key dates. (Milliman, Inc.)

[Opinion]
ERIC Comments on Reducing the Regulatory Burden on Benefit Plans (PDF)
"ERIC urged Treasury to be more responsive to easing the regulatory burden on sponsors of benefit plans to ensure that companies continue to provide health and retirement benefits, and cited the ongoing experience of sponsors of cash balance and other hybrid pensions plans as an example of the adverse consequences that misguided regulations can have." (The ERISA Industry Committee)

Press Releases

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Employee Benefits Jobs

Senior Consulting Support Specialist
for Northwestern Benefit Corporation of GA in GA

Institutional Services Communications Specialist
for BB&T in NC

VP, Marketing - Pension Risk Transfer
for Prudential in CT

Director-Defined Contribution Plans
for MetLife in NJ

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Webcasts and Conferences

EBRI to Host 2011 Spring Policy Forum on Retirement Issues
Nationwide on May 12, 2011 presented by Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)

Employee Benefit Plans & the New Puerto Rico Tax Code
Nationwide on May 25, 2011 presented by BNA Tax & Accounting

Group Health Claims and Appeals: The Brave New World for Making, Administering and Paying Health Claims
Nationwide on June 14, 2011 presented by ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits

Retirement Income Solutions Summit
in Illinois on October 4, 2011 presented by Pensions & Investments

Retirement Income Solutions Summit
in New York on October 6, 2011 presented by Pensions & Investments

Take Back That Pension Plan! Avoiding the Heartbreak of Plan Disqualification Through EPCRS
in California on May 19, 2011 presented by Western Pension & Benefits Conference - Orange County Chapter


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