Recently Released WebCOBRA Enhancements
Since the beginning of 2011, in only 6 short weeks, Travis has added nine new features and capabilities to WebCOBRA®, making it even more efficient and beneficial to your COBRA administration needs. These recently released enhancements fall in the categories of general functionality, letters/notices, and reports.
Recently released enhancements include…
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New Formatting for Reports in WebCOBRA
Users may have noticed that there are ongoing updates to the reports in WebCOBRA. New and updated reports are now formatted to resemble a spreadsheet design so that they are easily viewed and modified in Microsoft Excel.
In the report below, for example, “PlanSponsors, Inc.” would have been a section title. Now, the Carrier/Sponsor name is repeated in every row, so when the report is exported to Excel, the associated data is easily modified. In addition to the updated formatting, many reports now feature several new options, including sorting by Department, masking SSNs, and displaying only active plans.
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New ARRA Reports Available in TravisCOBRA and WebCOBRA.com!
Last week, Travis reported that the IRS released informal guidance regarding the proper procedure to claim credit for an ARRA premium subsidy on IRS Form 941. Through an email authored by a senior IRS Analyst, the IRS clarified that the ability to claim credit for the COBRA premium subsidy is based on the date that the COBRA premium payment is received, not the time period to which such credit is applied.
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