ThomsonReuters

DECEMBER 2, 2021

QUESTION: Our company has a calendar-year cafeteria plan with a premium payment feature, a health FSA, and a DCAP. Shortly after our open enrollment period closed for the 2022 plan year, several employees asked if they could change their 2022 elections. How should we handle election change requests made after open enrollment has ended but before the new plan year has begun?

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Mogin Rubin M&A

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Prior approval is once again standard practice. The Federal Trade Commission has resuscitated its long-dormant policy of routinely restricting anticompetitive mergers, putting “industry on notice” that it will once again require aggressive acquirers to obtain prior approval “before closing any future transaction affecting each relevant market for which a violation was alleged, for a minimum of 10 years.”.

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ThomsonReuters

DECEMBER 2, 2021

IRS Notice 2021-64 (Nov. 30, 2021). Available at [link]. The IRS has issued its 2021 Required Amendments List (RA List) for individually designed qualified retirement plans (including 401(k) plans) and 403(b) plans. This year’s list does not identify any qualification changes that require 401(k) plans to be amended. In fact, it identifies only one change, which only affects financially troubled multiemployer defined benefit plans that received special financial assistance under the American Res

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ThomsonReuters

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Fact Sheet: EBSA Restores Over $2.4 Billion to Employee Benefit Plans, Participants and Beneficiaries. Available at [link]. The DOL’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), the agency that enforces Title I of ERISA, has released a fact sheet announcing its fiscal year (FY) 2021 enforcement statistics. According to the fact sheet, EBSA has enforcement authority over nearly 734,000 retirement plans, 2 million health plans, and 662,000 other welfare benefit plans, covering about 1

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Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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ThomsonReuters

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Christine S. v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of N.M., 2021 WL 4805136 (D. Utah 2021). A group health plan participant sued the plan and its insurer after claims for her child’s residential mental health treatment were denied. The participant argued that the plan improperly classified the treatment as not medically necessary and that it violated the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) by applying more stringent medical necessity criteria to mental health care than to medical/surgical

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