Re 2093:
Margaret: Thanks for the phone call. As discussed, can you please contact your IRS contact and confirm with them that if 00 is populated in the Plan Start Month XML field that since it is optional for 2015, it will have no adverse impact for those of us offering health plan coverage to our employees. In other words, the value will be ignored or not applicable for the 2015 filing.
That would help greatly in resolving this question/issue.
As reference and why I am inquiring about this 'optional' field is:
In December, 2015, our legal counsel advised us:
"The use of "00" means no health plan was offered to the employee"
My response form the IRS AIR Mailbox in February, 2016 was:
"Hi Nancy
Entering "00" will indicate there is no health plan under which coverage is offered to the employee, per the instructions.
Regards
Air Mailbox Team, dkb
Thanks, Margaret.