Cynthia A Moore

Practice Areas

Focuses practice in the area of employee benefits, including counseling employers on compliance with the tax and ERISA aspects of welfare benefit plans, qualified retirement plans, non-qualified deferred compensation plans, equity plans and fringe benefit plans. She counsels employers on compliance with the Affordable Care Act and the myriad other laws affecting group health plans, including HIPAA and COBRA. She has extensive experience with designing deferred compensation plans and agreements to comply with Code Section 409A.

Professional Memberships

State Bar of Michigan – Taxation Section; American Bar Association, Sections of Business Law and Taxation; member of the Employee Benefits Committee, Cafeteria Plans and Flexible Benefits Subcommittee

Publications

Co-author, Tax Management Portfolio 394-5th, “Employee Fringe Benefits”; Author, "2021 ACA Information Reporting Update: Extended "Furnishing" Deadline But No More "Good Faith" Relief," Dickinson Wright Industry Alert, December 2021; Author, "IRS Guidance on COBRA Subsidy, Part III: Claiming the Premium Assistance Credit," Dickinson Wright Client Alert, June 2021; Author, "IRS Guidance on COBRA Subsidy, Part II: Determining Assistance Eligible Individuals and Dealing with the Extended Election Period," Dickinson Wright Client Alert, May 2021; Author, "IRS Guidance on COBRA Subsidy, Part I: Involuntary Termination, Reduction in Hours, and Group Health Plans Covered by the Subsidy," Dickinson Wright Client Alert, May 2021; Author, “Administration of Group Life Insurance – Not So Easy?,” Dickinson Wright All Things HR Blog, May 2021; Author, "IRS Clarifies Treatment of Dependent Care Benefits," Dickinson Wright Client Alert, May 2021; Author, "Fee Disclosures Coming for Group Health Plans," Dickinson Wright Client Alert, April 2021; Author, "New COBRA Subsidy Available April 1, 2021," Dickinson Wright Client Alert, March 2021; Author, "Group Health Plan Transparency Disclosure Rules Finalized: What Plan Sponsors Should Know," Dickinson Wright Client Alert, March 2021; Author, "IRS Issues Guidance on the CAA Changes for Flexible Spending Accounts: Good News for Participants but Additional Administrative Challenges for Plan Sponsors," Dickinson Wright Client Alert, March 2021.

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