{"id":438,"date":"2021-03-05T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/?p=438"},"modified":"2022-06-05T11:10:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T21:10:58","slug":"usdol-extends-certain-employee-benefit-plan-deadlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/news-and-information\/usdol-extends-certain-employee-benefit-plan-deadlines\/","title":{"rendered":"USDOL Extends Certain Employee Benefit Plan Deadlines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last year, the USDOL, the Department of the Treasury and the IRS issued a joint notice extending certain deadlines for employee benefit plan participants and beneficiaries due to the COVID-19 national emergency; the relief period began March 1, 2020. This included such actions as&nbsp;COBRA election, special enrollment periods, and claims procedures.&nbsp;On February 26, 2021, the USDOL issued EBSA Disaster Relief Notice 2021-01, which states that the tolling period for individuals and plans will be the earlier of:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>1 year from the date they were first eligible for relief, or<\/li><li>60 days after the announced end of the national emergency.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>On the applicable date, the timeframes which were previously disregarded will resume; in no case will a disregarded period exceed 1 year. The USDOL recommends that plan fiduciaries take steps to minimize the possibility of individuals losing benefits because of a failure to comply with pre-established time frames. Where the plan administrator or other responsible plan fiduciary knows, or should reasonably know, that the end of the relief period for an individual action is exposing a participant or beneficiary to a risk of losing protections, benefits, or rights under the plan, the administrator\/fiduciary should consider affirmatively sending a notice of the end of the relief period. For more information, see&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/sites\/dolgov\/files\/ebsa\/employers-and-advisers\/plan-administration-and-compliance\/disaster-relief\/ebsa-disaster-relief-notice-2021-01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Notice 2021-01<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the USDOL, the Department of the Treasury and the IRS issued a joint notice extending certain deadlines for employee benefit plan participants and beneficiaries due to the COVID-19 national emergency; the relief period began March 1, 2020. This included such actions as&nbsp;COBRA election, special enrollment periods, and claims procedures.&nbsp;On February 26, 2021, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}