The IRS announced that the 2024 health plan affordability threshold—which is used to determine if an employer's lowest-premium health plan meets the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) affordability requirement—will be 8.39 percent of an employee's household income. That's down from this year's 9.12 percent figure. The information was detailed in IRS Rev. Proc. 2023-29, which was released last week. The 2024 threshold is a significant decrease from 2023, and it is the lowest affordability threshold since the ACA was implemented.
Revenue Procedure 2023-29
Affordability and Minimum Value
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Importantly, employers that use the exact safe harbor dollar amount to set employee contributions will need to reduce the current employee contribution for the lowest-cost, self-only option for the 2024 plan year.
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Gallagher | Aug 2023
There are three "safe harbors" for affordable employer-provided coverage under the ACA: the Federal Poverty Level Safe Harbor, the Rate of Pay Safe Harbor and the W-2 Wages Safe Harbor. An employer must meet one of them to show that the coverage it has offered employees is affordable.
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