On January 30, 2023, the Biden administration[1] announced that on May 11, 2023 it plans to end the COVID-19 national emergency (Outbreak Period) and public health emergency (Public Health Emergency), which were declared by the Trump administration in 2020. Currently, the Outbreak Period will expire on March 1, 2023, and the Public Health Emergency will expire on April 11, 2023. Each declaration apparently will be extended only once more to get to May 11, 2023. When the COVID-19 pandemic began, plan sponsors and plan administrators were required to comply with a myriad of temporary changes impacting ERISA health and welfare plans. Do plan documents and ancillary participant communications need to be updated to reflect pre-pandemic deadlines and remove mention of the Outbreak Period and Public Health Emergency?

Source: New York Times April 13, 2023 22:02 UTC