{"id":"SEC-13-022","kind":"order","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States","state":"","metro":"","industry":"13","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Department of Labor, EBSA (implementing ARPA sec. 9501, Pub. L. 117-2)","authority":"ARPA sec. 9501 (COBRA premium assistance); ERISA; the Code; PHS Act","instrument":"FAQs About COBRA Premium Assistance Under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (with ARPA sec. 9501)","title":"FAQs About COBRA Premium Assistance Under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021","dateIssued":"2021-04-07","effective":"2021-04-01","end":"2021-09-30","startDate":"2021-04-01","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["OTHER"],"addressees":["group health plans, insurers, plan administrators, employers"],"clause":"Section 9501 of the ARP provides for COBRA premium assistance to help Assistance Eligible Individuals... continue their health benefits.... The premium assistance applies to periods of health coverage on or after April 1, 2021 through September 30, 2021.... [plans and issuers must provide the notice of the extended election period] within 60 days of the first day of the first month beginning after the date of enactment","enforcement":"Statutory mandate (ARPA sec. 9501; excise tax under I.R.C. sec. 4980B for failures); the statute is FED-174","functions":["IN (insurers and administrators: subsidized coverage, notices, election periods, premium accounting)","WM (benefits)","OP"],"notes":"A statutory mandate on every insurer and plan administrator whose dates are exactly the second and third quarters of 2021.","sourceUrl":"https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/EBSA/about-ebsa/our-activities/resource-center/faqs/cobra-premium-assistance-under-arp.pdf","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20210407155716/https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/EBSA/about-ebsa/our-activities/resource-center/faqs/cobra-premium-assistance-under-arp.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":138668,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SEC-13","url":"/library/SEC-13-022","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SEC-13-022","citation":"Department of Labor, EBSA (implementing ARPA sec. 9501, Pub. L. 117-2), FAQs About COBRA Premium Assistance Under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (with ARPA sec. 9501) (Apr. 7, 2021) (Ex. SEC-13-022)","stateName":"","related":["FED-174"]}