Travis Software Official Blog

Today marks the 100th day since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was signed, enacting what proved to be the largest change to COBRA regulations in recent history. Below, tell us your ARRA story and answer a quick poll about COBRA participation.

One question that we have heard is, ‘Are you going to continue to support TravisCobra?’ The answer is resoundingly YES!

TravisCobra, and its DOS predecessor, has been running smoothly for 23 years and has a devoted user base. We believe in client hosted COBRA software, and we’ll be supporting it for years and years to come.

Two new ARRA reporting capabilities have been added to the TravisCobra system within the past week, and we wanted to make sure that you know about them!

Having two ARRA reports that deal with payments may seem like overkill; however, the two reports are necessary. In one instance you may want to look at all ARRA premiums in a month, but you also may want to see all payments that affect ARRA subsidies in that month. We can now let you slice the data both ways.

WebCOBRA.com has always allowed you to disburse payment and premium amounts to Sponsor/Carriers or Client/Employers with the easy-to-use Premium Disbursement wizard.

Now, this process just got a little easier with the two new Premium Disbursement options that were recently added to your WebCOBRA.com system. Both of these new options will allow you to either include or exclude subsidy amounts in disbursement calculations and reports.

The Plan Exclusion feature, which was originally discussed here, will allow you to exclude domestic partners and other ineligible dependents from receiving the 65% ARRA subsidy. This feature was released as a part of our continuing effort to update the WebCOBRA.com system so that you can administer ARRA subsidies more efficiently than ever!

In our opinion, Travis provides the best benefit administration systems on the market, and we have consistently provided support for those products in an evolving way over Travis’ nearly 23 years in business.

In order to keep Travis Support evolving, we’re making a clarification as to what Travis Support Representatives will require in order to accept a support case that requires more investigation than one phone call can provide.

When you are adding a takeover QB Group into WebCOBRA, you may want to print a takeover letter and a new set of coupons so the enrolled QB knows where to send payments. Previously, you had to go into the QB’s screen to schedule the coupon set, but now you can schedule it from the QB Add Wizard screen itself!