Why Form 1094 B Essential 2024-2025

Good afternoon and welcome to the Employer Link webinar series presented by Mac in town. My name is Brad Nice, Managing Editor of Employer Lane. Today we'll be discussing the next big compliance challenge with the Affordable Care Act, and that is new reporting requirements for employers set to go into effect for the upcoming calendar year. Our presenters today will discuss what steps employers need to be taking right now to get ready. Our presenters today are McAfee intact employee benefits attorneys Brandon Long and Barbra Klepper. Both work with employers of all sizes in designing, analyzing, and implementing cost containment strategies for company-sponsored health and wellness plans. Their areas of expertise also extend to retirement plan design, deferred compensation, COBRA, HIPAA compliance, and the representation of clients in audits and investigations by the IRS and US Department of Labor. They are both frequent authors and speakers on employee benefits issues for state, regional, and national audiences. Brandon also serves as the practice group leader for the firm's employee benefits group. So with those introductions, I'll turn it over to you. Good afternoon and thanks again for joining us today. You know, before this webinar, Barbara and I were looking over the registration list of the folks on this call today. From the list, we can tell that there are a lot of folks that we've been working with on the player pay rules, helping to identify full-time employees, track hours, and measuring periods. We've already done a webinar on that for some time. We've kind of been saying and throwing out there that of equal importance to employers, equal to the player pay rules and identifying your full-time employees, one other topic that is of equal importance is the employer reporting requirements. We have largely ignored it until...