The Massachusetts Department of Family and Medical Leave (the “Department ) has updated its Employer Portal and issued a reminder about the deadline for private plan reporting, set for August 31, 2025, besides summarising tax guidance related to the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave law (“MAPFML ). The updated portal now provides a timeline of instances, a column for action items, access to an employee’s weekly wage and benefit amount for easy computation of top-off payments, and an option to download a file of leave data in a CSV format.

For those who are self-insured, third parties who handle private plans, and private plan insurance carriers, it is necessary to submit the required private plan data to the Department by the end of August 2025. The kind of data required includes information on approved and rejected claims, as well as the total amounts paid out as benefits. This report is used by the Department to analyze the accomplishment of MAPFML program goals and evaluate the performance of private family and medical care plans. The Department may withdraw its private plan approval if the report is not submitted by the deadline.

In January 2025, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS ) provided new guidance on the implications of compulsory, state-administered paid family and medical leave programs like MAPFML from a federal income tax perspective. The process for deducting taxes from the weekly benefit provided under MAPFML was clarified, besides establishing that employees have the choice to have state and federal taxes deducted from their weekly benefit at the time of applying for MAPFML.

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