The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), signed July 4, 2025, significantly impacts employee benefits by permanently expanding Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) to include Bronze/catastrophic plans and first-dollar telehealth coverage. It raises Dependent Care FSA limits to $7,500 by 2026, introduces tax-deductible overtime (2025-2028), and eliminates tax-free moving expenses/bike commuting.
1, The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the Act) contains a number of changes to employee benefits. These changes include, for example, enhancement of the employer-provided childcare credit and the elimination of the bike commuter reimbursement program.
The new law has a provision for "losses available to living affected individuals," which, among other things, allows recipients of workers' compensation benefits related to Manhattan Project waste to claim "additional compensation in the amount of all documented out-of-pocket medical expenses incurred as a result of ...
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) has eliminated federal income tax on “qualified” tips and overtime pay for tax years 2025-2028. The first $25,000 of the calendar year's “qualified” tips and $12,500 ($25,000 for joint filers) of earned overtime will not be subject to federal income tax.
✓ Benefit Cuts for Early Retirees – Results in some pre-65 retirees losing Medicaid and SNAP benefits and causes big increases in their ACA marketplace health premiums. ✓ Temporary Tax Cuts for Some Retirees – Gives a temporary, 4-year tax deduction for some people 65 and older with incomes below certain levels.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) became law on July 4, 2025. It restructures taxes, adjusts Medicare and Medicaid eligibility rules, and introduces a new deduction that could reduce the number of retirees who owe taxes on their Social Security benefits.
Your Social Security benefit could increase significantly under the Social Security Fairness Act, depending on your work history, with estimates showing average boosts of around $360/month (WEP-affected) to $1,190/month (GPO-affected), plus retroactive lump-sum payments back to January 2024, as the Act repealed the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) for many public servants. The exact amount varies, from small increases to over $1,000 monthly, impacting those with non-Social Security pensions, and you should receive a notice from the SSA.
The One, Big, Beautiful Bill will cut taxes for Americans earning under $50,000 by 14.9%. 66% of The One, Big, Beautiful Bill's tax cuts benefit families making less than $500,000. The tax cuts and economic growth from The One, Big, Beautiful Bill will increase the take- home pay for a family of four by $10,900.
The "7-minute rule" for federal (and most private sector) employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) allows employers to round time clock entries to the nearest 15-minute increment, but it must be neutral overall, meaning it can't consistently favor the employer; specifically, time from 1 to 7 minutes past a quarter-hour can be rounded down, while time from 8 to 14 minutes past a quarter-hour must be rounded up, ensuring employees are paid fairly and not losing small amounts of time consistently. This rule streamlines payroll but requires balance, so if you're working, you get credit for those minutes, preventing unfair underpayment over time.
States including Alaska, California, Colorado, and Nevada, as well as Oregon in certain industries, have daily overtime requirements that exceed federal law. Employers will have to set up systems to separate overtime paid under the FLSA from overtime paid for other reasons, she said. 2. Update withholding procedures.
The Budget Lab produced a combined estimate of the distributional effects of the 2025 tariff changes and the OBBBA which finds that the bottom 90 percent of households by income level would experience a reduction in income (of 7%) over 2026 to 2034, while the top ten percent would experience an increase in income (of ...
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The OBBBA makes no changes to 401(k) contribution limits and SECURE Act 2.0 legislation will continue to be the driving force for regulatory change within retirement plans. Although the OBBBA left retirement planning largely untouched, several measures in the bill could impact individual taxpayers.
Under OBBBA, the credit percentage will increase to 40% for most employers and 50% for eligible small businesses, while the annual cap will rise to $500,000 – or $600,000 for eligible small businesses – with both caps subject to annual inflation adjustments starting in 2026.
Did the no tax on overtime pass? Yes. The no tax on overtime bill was included in the One Big Beautiful Bill that President Trump signed into law in July 2025. This new law creates a first-of-its-kind tax exemption for certain overtime pay, effective beginning in tax year 2025.
The fifty-nine-minute rule purportedly emanates from a provision in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) that gives agencies the discretion to forgive brief absences when employees otherwise would have to be overcharged leave in minimum increments.
This is wage theft. If you boss wanted you to stop working they needed to tell you.
You no longer claim "0 or 1" allowances on the modern IRS Form W-4 (Employee's Withholding Certificate) because allowances were eliminated in 2020; instead, you provide filing status, dependents, and other income details for more accurate withholding, but claiming 0 generally means more tax withheld (larger refund) while claiming 1 (in the old system, or equivalent on the new form) meant less withheld (smaller refund/potential owed tax). If you're single, have one job, and want to minimize owing taxes, you'll generally fill out the new W-4 to withhold accurately, perhaps by claiming 0 allowances or using the IRS Tax Withholding Estimator.
To avoid the 22% tax bracket (or any higher bracket), focus on reducing your taxable income through strategies like maxing out 401(k)s and HSAs, deferring bonuses, tax-loss harvesting, smart charitable giving, and strategic asset location, understanding that higher rates only apply to income within that bracket, not your entire income.
(No matter your work history, Social Security has no impact on your CalPERS pension). The WEP was repealed by the Social Security Fairness Act, signed into law by President Biden on January 5, 2025.