Employers To Get An Extra Year To Implement Health Law Requirement On Coverage

Written by Reed Tinsley | July 3, 2013

 

The Obama administration Tuesday announced a one-year delay in the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that businesses with 50 or more employees offer coverage to their workers or pay a penalty.

Administration officials said the delay was in response to employers’ concerns about the law’s reporting requirements. Delaying the law’s "employer responsibility" provision would give employers more time to comply and give the government more time to consider ways to "simplify the new reporting requirements consistent with the law," according to a blog post from Mark J. Mazur, the assistant secretary for tax policy at the Department of Treasury.

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http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2013/July/02/employer-mandate-delayed.aspx

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