ICHRA - An Overview and Reporting Requirements on ACA Forms
ICHRA - An overview
An ICHRA is an employer-sponsored reimbursement plan, which allows employees to purchase their individual health insurance plan on the market place. In turn, the plan reimburses the employee upto their allowance amount to help them cover a portion of their medical costs
and/or premiums.
You can define eligibility according to the employee classes listed below. It can be a different allowance amount for different classes
of employees, including:
Full-Time employees
Part-time employees
Seasonal employees
Salaried employees
Non-salaried employees
Hourly employees
Temporary employees who are working for a staffing firm
Employees those covered by a collective bargaining agreement
Employees those in a waiting period
NRI employees those work in abroad
Employees from different locations, depending on
rating areas
A blend of two or more of the above
ICHRA Affordability
According to the ACA employer mandate, Applicable Large Employers (ALE) reimbursing for the ICHRA plan should be affordable for
each employee.
ICHRA is considered to be affordable, if the remaining amount an employee has to pay for the lowest-cost silver plan on the local exchange must not be more than 9.12% of the employee’s household income. (rate applies to
tax year 2023)
Click here to calculate the ICHRA affordability.
ICHRA Reporting Requirements
According to the ACA reporting requirements, employers are responsible for reporting the ICHRA Information to the IRS and furnishing the copies
to employees.
For reporting, the IRS requests employers to submit the ICHRA information on ACA Form 1095-B / 1095-C.
To gather the ICHRA plans information and to ensure the affordability for employees, the IRS has added new lines & codes to the Form 1095-B/C.
Reporting ICHRA on Form 1095-C
IRS added the few lines and codes on Form 1095-C to gather ICHRA information.
- Employee’s age on January 1
- Plan Start month
- Zip code by month (Line 17)
- Offer of Coverage (1095-C Codes)
Click here to know more about the 2024 ACA Reporting Requirements.
Reporting ICHRA on Form 1095-B
On the Form 1095-B, employers offering an ICHRA must report enrollment on line 8 of the form
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You can define eligibility according to the employee classes listed below. It can be a different allowance amount for different classes
of employees, including:
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