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October 29, 2024

This is an official communication from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment’s
Family & Medical Leave Insurance Division.

Welcome to our newsletter for the employer and business community. Here you’ll find everything your organization needs to know to effectively navigate FAMLI. Be sure to check your subscription preferences to get the most impactful updates.

Wage reports and premiums are due Thursday! 

Time is running out. Employers have less than 48 hours to meet their obligations under Colorado’s Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) Act before seeing penalties and interest charges. 

After October 31, employers who fail to report wages and pay premiums for Q3 2024 will be charged penalties and interest for this quarter. Penalties and interest will not be applied to missing wage reports and outstanding premium balances for quarters prior to Q3 2024.   

If your business has missing wage reports and/or unpaid premiums for prior quarters,  the Division has mailed a Notice of Unreported Wages or Unpaid FAMLI Premiums indicating which quarterly wage reports and premiums are still outstanding. Log in to your My FAMLI+ Employer account to make sure your business is up to date on all quarterly reporting and premium payments. 

As an employer, you are responsible for reporting wages accurately and paying premiums, fees, fines, and/or interest payments that may be assessed by the Division for non-compliance. This is true even if you use a third-party administrator (TPA) or payroll service provider.  The full details about how Colorado recovers overdue FAMLI obligations are on our Rules page. 

If you have any questions about getting your obligations settled or setting up an installment payment agreement, we are standing by to help. Call us at 1-866-CO-FAMLI (1-866-263-2654) any weekday between 7 a.m. - 6 p.m. MT. We also have several online resources including the My FAMLI+ Employer user guide and several how-to-videos, file specifications, and sample templates to help you along the way.

Make sure your mailing address is up to date

To help remind employers about their quarterly reporting obligations, the FAMLI Division will be mailing hard-copy Notices of Unreported Wages or Unpaid FAMLI Premiums each month to employers that are missing wage reports or have outstanding premium balances. Please make sure both your mailing address and email address for the primary contact of your business is accurate and up to date in My FAMLI+ Employer. Log in to your My FAMLI+ Employer account and check your address today.

Quarterly wage reporting just got easier, thanks to this upgrade to My FAMLI+ Employer

Exciting news, employers! We’ve upgraded My FAMLI+ Employer so that you can copy wage reports and carry them over quarter to quarter.

We’ve received a lot of requests for this upgrade, so we’re excited to announce that employers who submit wage data manually and have 10 or fewer employees can now copy employee data from the previous quarter's wage report to the current quarter's wage report. Once the report has been processed, the Premiums Administrators and Editors will receive a confirmation email.

This isn’t the only upgrade we made this month. Employers can also:

• View and edit saved payment methods and add a "Nickname" to saved payment methods. New Help Text on the screen also helps users understand where their payments are applied and how to navigate the page.
• See their FAMLI IDs when they receive emails for Failed and Successful Payments. 
• Receive automatic emails when a payment method has been removed from a user's account.
• See a new Payments section on their Manage Account page, so they can view saved payment methods and payment history related to the account they are viewing.

We never stop looking for ways to improve how employers and TPAs comply with their FAMLI obligations. Keep the suggestions coming and share your feedback with us via our My FAMLI+ Employer Feedback Form.

Take action now to connect your employees to your employer-sponsored health coverage

The Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) is partnering with the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) to share this important message with Colorado Employers

Nationally, over 25 million people were disenrolled from Medicaid after the federal government called an end to the Public Health Emergency. Colorado continues to track with the February 2024 estimate of a net Medicaid enrollment reduction of 519,000 members from Health First Colorado (Colorado's Medicaid program).

Employers, please help Coloradans who are disenrolled from Medicaid enroll in your employer-sponsored health insurance. This open-enrollment period is a critical window to connect uninsured employees to health coverage options. 

Below are several steps employers can take to help employees get covered:

• Remind all your employees about health coverage options that you provide as their employer and how to apply. 
• If you do not offer employee benefit coverage, your employees may qualify for reduced-cost health insurance coverage through Connect for Health Colorado. 
• Refer affected employees to colorado.gov/health to learn more about other health coverage options. 

The State of Colorado has updated information and resources for employers in an Employers section on the KeepCOCovered.com website.

Thank you for doing your part to Keep Coloradans - and your employees - Covered.