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IMPORTANT NOTICE OF SERVICE INTERRUPTION
for Thursday, August 28, 2014.

Due to a mandatory maintenance/repair of a transformer, scheduled by the City of Appleton, Cypress Benefit Administrators will be without power Thursday, August 28. The outage will begin at 2:00 p.m. Central / 12:00 p.m. Pacific and last the remainder of our normal business hours on the 28th. Our offices will therefore be closed during the outage due to lack of phone and system availability. We will resume normal operations Friday, August 29. Please contact us at that time.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

In This Issue:

Proposed Rules to Expand Contraceptive Mandate Accommodation to Certain Closely Held For-Profit Entities

Proposed Rules to Expand Contraceptive Mandate Accommodation to Certain Closely Held For-Profit Entities

The U.S. Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services have proposed rules to expand the existing contraceptive mandate accommodation, which would allow certain carefully defined entities to be exempt from the Affordable Care Act's general requirement that group health plans provide coverage for contraceptive services. Learn more about the reasons, what types of entities could be affected, and links to the actual Proposed Rules and a Fact Sheet with further details.
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Sincerely,

Cypress Benefit Administrators