To assist employers and plan administrators in compliance with various employee benefit laws, the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) provides model notices and forms.  EBSA recently re-designed its website, which resulted in a change to the website addresses of several model DOL-EBSA forms. 

Many of the Model Notices & Disclosures can be found by topic via EBSA’s Plan Administration and (Health Plan) Compliance webpage.  These include:

• Affordable Care Act model forms including the notice of grandfathered health plan status, the patient protection notice, Notice of Marketplace Options, summary of benefits and coverage template and glossary, and the three types of claims and appeal notices;
• COBRA continuation of coverage model notices including the initial/general notice and election notice;
• View only Forms 5500 and M-1, and the model summary annual report; and
• Model Notice for Employers Regarding Premium Assistance Opportunities, also known as the Medicaid/CHIP notice.  The DOL recently re-issued this notice, made current as of July 31, 2019 (see our article in the August Benefit Beat).

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