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ACA is time-consuming.  There are imports from Sage available, but creating the format they want is also time-consuming.  It would be glorious if they had a "Copy from Prior Year" option for setting up the employee files each year....  But you didn't ask about all that.  :-)  

You have to setup ACA Employee Maintenance for each employee, ACA Employer Maintenance (and I'll tell you right now to save the year, then pull it back up and change the option re 1095 B or C to whatever it's NOT, save it again, then put it back to what it should be and save again - just trust me), and you need to run the Large report and update it to give you the number of FT employees needed in the Employer file. Point them somewhere else when they ask what options they should pick for the employees Offer of Coverage, etc.  Hopefully they already know the data needed and they're just looking for an easier way to get it together.

Adding to Beth's comments, make sure you fill out the "Plan Start Month" as that's one of the common mistakes that is made in our client base.  Our clients' largest questions come from what codes to put into the Offer of Coverage and the Applicable Section for Safe Harbor.  I typically point clients back to their insurance carrier to answer those questions, but I also send out this slide which helps with the codes to use for both the Offer as well as the Safe Harbor.

ACA is time-consuming.  There are imports from Sage available, but creating the format they want is also time-consuming.  It would be glorious if they had a "Copy from Prior Year" option for setting up the employee files each year....  But you didn't ask about all that.  :-)  

You have to setup ACA Employee Maintenance for each employee, ACA Employer Maintenance (and I'll tell you right now to save the year, then pull it back up and change the option re 1095 B or C to whatever it's NOT, save it again, then put it back to what it should be and save again - just trust me), and you need to run the Large report and update it to give you the number of FT employees needed in the Employer file. Point them somewhere else when they ask what options they should pick for the employees Offer of Coverage, etc.  Hopefully they already know the data needed and they're just looking for an easier way to get it together.

Adding to Beth's comments, make sure you fill out the "Plan Start Month" as that's one of the common mistakes that is made in our client base.  Our clients' largest questions come from what codes to put into the Offer of Coverage and the Applicable Section for Safe Harbor.  I typically point clients back to their insurance carrier to answer those questions, but I also send out this slide which helps with the codes to use for both the Offer as well as the Safe Harbor.

ACA is time-consuming.  There are imports from Sage available, but creating the format they want is also time-consuming.  It would be glorious if they had a "Copy from Prior Year" option for setting up the employee files each year....  But you didn't ask about all that.  :-)  

You have to setup ACA Employee Maintenance for each employee, ACA Employer Maintenance (and I'll tell you right now to save the year, then pull it back up and change the option re 1095 B or C to whatever it's NOT, save it again, then put it back to what it should be and save again - just trust me), and you need to run the Large report and update it to give you the number of FT employees needed in the Employer file. Point them somewhere else when they ask what options they should pick for the employees Offer of Coverage, etc.  Hopefully they already know the data needed and they're just looking for an easier way to get it together.

Excellent slide, @Sue Bennett

Adding to Beth's comments, make sure you fill out the "Plan Start Month" as that's one of the common mistakes that is made in our client base.  Our clients' largest questions come from what codes to put into the Offer of Coverage and the Applicable Section for Safe Harbor.  I typically point clients back to their insurance carrier to answer those questions, but I also send out this slide which helps with the codes to use for both the Offer as well as the Safe Harbor.

ACA is time-consuming.  There are imports from Sage available, but creating the format they want is also time-consuming.  It would be glorious if they had a "Copy from Prior Year" option for setting up the employee files each year....  But you didn't ask about all that.  :-)  

You have to setup ACA Employee Maintenance for each employee, ACA Employer Maintenance (and I'll tell you right now to save the year, then pull it back up and change the option re 1095 B or C to whatever it's NOT, save it again, then put it back to what it should be and save again - just trust me), and you need to run the Large report and update it to give you the number of FT employees needed in the Employer file. Point them somewhere else when they ask what options they should pick for the employees Offer of Coverage, etc.  Hopefully they already know the data needed and they're just looking for an easier way to get it together.

Excellent slide, @Sue Bennett

Adding to Beth's comments, make sure you fill out the "Plan Start Month" as that's one of the common mistakes that is made in our client base.  Our clients' largest questions come from what codes to put into the Offer of Coverage and the Applicable Section for Safe Harbor.  I typically point clients back to their insurance carrier to answer those questions, but I also send out this slide which helps with the codes to use for both the Offer as well as the Safe Harbor.

Excellent slide, @Sue Bennett

Adding to Beth's comments, make sure you fill out the "Plan Start Month" as that's one of the common mistakes that is made in our client base.  Our clients' largest questions come from what codes to put into the Offer of Coverage and the Applicable Section for Safe Harbor.  I typically point clients back to their insurance carrier to answer those questions, but I also send out this slide which helps with the codes to use for both the Offer as well as the Safe Harbor.

ACA is time-consuming.  There are imports from Sage available, but creating the format they want is also time-consuming.  It would be glorious if they had a "Copy from Prior Year" option for setting up the employee files each year....  But you didn't ask about all that.  :-)  

You have to setup ACA Employee Maintenance for each employee, ACA Employer Maintenance (and I'll tell you right now to save the year, then pull it back up and change the option re 1095 B or C to whatever it's NOT, save it again, then put it back to what it should be and save again - just trust me), and you need to run the Large report and update it to give you the number of FT employees needed in the Employer file. Point them somewhere else when they ask what options they should pick for the employees Offer of Coverage, etc.  Hopefully they already know the data needed and they're just looking for an easier way to get it together.

I submitted the ACA Employer Maintenance fix a couple of years ago when payroll was looking for some quick fixes and it was fixed. To my knowledge, I don't think we have had any support cases for the issue since.

@Sue Bennett Thanks for sharing the graphic.