COBRA Subsidy Extension Webinar
The COBRA subsidy extension law presents many administrative challenges for TPAs and plan sponsors. The law, passed as a part of the Fiscal Year 2010 Defense Appropriations Act, extends the eligibility period for the COBRA subsidy for an additional two months and the maximum period for receiving the subsidy for an additional 6 months (from nine to 15 months). The legal language is complicated and unintentionally has omitted certain groups of people from getting the extension. As we continue to analyze the language, more issues emerge.

You need to understand the details of this new law so you can explain this to plan participants.

  • What groups of people are eligible for the COBRA subsidy extension?
  • Which individuals must receive notice of the subsidy? Some individuals who are not entitled to the subsidy extension must still receive notice. For example, individuals who did not continue their COBRA for the 9-month subsidy but were covered under COBRA on October 31, 2009 must receive a notice but they are not entitled to the subsidy extension.
  • What language must be included in the required notices?
  • What are the different notice deadline dates?
  • Additional legislative changes to the COBRA subsidy are in the works.
    • Seminar Information
    Date Presented:
    January 11, 2010 1:00 PM Eastern
    Length:
    2 hours
    Ashley Gillihan
    Ashley Gillihan is counsel in the Atlanta office and a member of the firm's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation and ERISA Litigation Groups. Mr. Gillihan focuses his practice exclusively on health and welfare employee benefit compliance and litigation issues for employers, health plan administrators and other health and welfare benefit plan service providers. He also has extensive experience assisting financial institutions and insurance companies who serve as Health Savings Account trustees or custodians. Mr. Gillihan is active in publishing and speaking on various health and welfare benefit plan related topics and serves as a faculty member and/or technical advisor for several health and welfare benefit plan focused organizations. Ashley received his undergraduate degree from Western Kentucky University and his law degree from Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law in 1996. He is a member of the Alabama Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association and the Georgia Bar Association.
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