August 2011

 

Employee Benefits Alert

 

Wisconsin Budget Act Amends Dependent Coverage Law, But Not Tax Implications

 

On June 26, 2011, Governor Scott Walker signed into law the biennial Budget Bill. The Wisconsin Budget Bill modified a provision in the Wisconsin Statutes that required employers with insured group health plans (and self-funded public sector health plans) that offer dependent health insurance coverage to their employees must include coverage for certain adult dependent children up to the day before the child's 27th birthday. Specifically, Wisconsin law now largely follows the requirements of the federal health care reform law (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("PPACA")), which requires that employers provide coverage to adult children of employees up to the day before the child's 26th birthday.

 

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