1099 Reporting Provision Repealed fro PPACA

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has signed the first rollback of last year’s health care law, a bipartisan repeal of a burdensome tax-reporting requirement that’s widely unpopular with businesses.

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Health Care Reform Insurance Voucher Provision Repealed in Last Minute Budget Deal

by Jerry Geisel, Business Insurance

The budget deal, reached late Friday, narrowly averted a large-scale shutdown of the federal government after congressional leaders and the Obama administration agreed to a package that cuts about $38 billion in federal spending.

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Statement by Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis on COBRA’s 25th anniversary

EBSA News Release: [04/07/2011]
Contact Name: Mike Trupo or Jason Surbey
Phone Number: (202) 693-3414 or x4668
Release Number: 11-0493-NAT

WASHINGTON — For 25 years, the health insurance continuation provisions in the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, better known as COBRA, have guaranteed that when workers and their families face certain life events, they have the opportunity to maintain their health care coverage. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today issued the following statement marking this anniversary:

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