Plans and enrollees should ignore the outbreak period — the COVID-19 national emergency period, plus 60 days — when applying the affected benefits provision deadlines, officials write. (Photo: Mike Scarcella/ALM)
Officials at the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) say they have worked with the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to give workers a lot more time to respond to common types of benefits action notices.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
