• [Guidance Overview] 2008 Year-End Plan Sponsor 'To Do' Lists (PDF)
  22 pages; at pages 1-14; bravo! Excerpt: "Attached are seven 'to do' lists that may require you to take action before the end of 2008 o...
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• [Guidance Overview] 2008 Year-End Checkup for Pension and Welfare Benefit Plans (PDF)
  17 pages. Excerpt: "This Alert will help identify general year-end administrative and planning issues that could lead to compliance or ...
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• [Guidance Overview] Distributions from Health FSAs to Employees on Active Military Duty
  Excerpt: "The IRS recently issued clarifications on the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008 (the HEART Act) which bec...
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• [Guidance Overview] Five New Health Plan Compliance Developments Need Consideration (PDF)
  5 pages. Law firm's newsletter provides overview of rules on mental health parity, bicycle commuter benefit, Michelle's Law, clarificat...
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• [Guidance Overview] New FSA Withdrawal Feature for Eligible Reservists: Amending Cafeteria Plans Following the HEART Act
  Excerpt: "QRDs are not required additions to FSAs. However, where a plan sponsor decides to offer QRDs, the cafeteria plan must be amen...
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Health Savings Headlines

• J.P. Morgan Sees Health Savings Accounts Rise 60 Percent
  J.P. Morgan announced that their Health Savings Account (HSA) business has grown by 60 percent in account volume over the last year. A...
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• Health Savings Accounts Create Choice
  At the National Consumer Driven Healthcare Conference I went to, one of the speakers was Samuel Gibbs, Senior Vice President of ehealth...
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• Health savings accounts can help you save now and later
  The concept behind Health Savings Accounts is pretty simple: You put money into a tax-favored account to pay for medical expenses now a...
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• Health Savings Accounts on Election Day
  It has been reported by the CDC's National Health Information Survey (NHIS) that consumer-driven healthcare and Health Savings Accounts...
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• Consumers Demanding Health Savings Accounts
  Consumers are demanding a much greater role in decisions involving their health care, says Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen I...
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Healthcare Headlines

• Yahoo! Health Directory Rates Healthcare Providers
  
• Employers and Consumers Recognize Value of Consumer-Directed Health Plans
  
• Consumer-driven health care needs to be encouraged
  
• Health-care reform on a merry-go-round
  
• Puerto Rico establishes Health Savings Accounts