2026 quick benefit facts 

Mercer’s 2026 quick benefit facts guide offers a handy reference giving key 2024–2026 annual limits for retirement plans, as well as health, fringe benefit and Affordable Care Act (ACA) figures.

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Annually adjusted retirement plan figures shown include:

• IRS qualified retirement plan limits
• IRS limits for traditional individual retirement accounts
• PBGC premiums for single-employer defined benefit plans
• Social Security taxable wage base and cost-of-living adjustment

Annually adjusted health and fringe benefit figures shown include:

• Tax-free qualified transportation fringe benefit limit
• Limits on salary-reduction contributions to health flexible spending arrangements
• Maximum contributions to health savings accounts, out-of-pocket maximums for high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) and minimum HDHP annual deductibles
• ACA out-of-pocket maximums for nongrandfathered group health plans
• ACA play-or-pay assessments under the employer shared-responsibility (ESR) mandate
• ACA affordability limit under the ESR federal-poverty-line safe harbor
• ACA affordability percentage for employer coverage

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