Rhode Island
Rhode Island Extends ACA Filing Deadlines | The ACA Times

ACA submitting for the 2022 tax 12 months is quick approaching. Employers with operations in Rhode Island ought to pay attention to the latest adjustments made relating to ACA submitting and furnishing.
Late final month, Rhode Island’s Division of Taxation issued an announcement relating to the upcoming annual ACA furnishing and submitting deadlines. Per the brand new necessities, for the 2022 tax 12 months, employers with operations in Rhode Island should furnish their 1095-C and relevant 1095-B varieties by March 2, 2023, beforehand January 31, 2023.
The ACA submitting deadline for submitting 1095-C varieties to the Rhode Island Division of Taxation has modified as properly. The brand new deadline for submitting the 2022 varieties 1094-C and 1095-C is March 31, 2023, beforehand January 31, 2023.
Organizations ought to observe that these new deadlines are everlasting. Yearly going ahead, employers with operations in Rhode Island might want to file and furnish their ACA info by the aforementioned deadlines. Within the official discover issued by the Division of Taxation, the company makes clear that the adjustments have been made to align “with IRS’ everlasting Inexpensive Care Act (ACA) submitting deadline change.”
Rhode Island Particular person Mandate
Like many different states, together with California, New Jersey, Washington D.C., and Massachusetts, Rhode Island has its personal Particular person Mandate. Rhode Island’s Particular person Mandate was signed into regulation on July 5, 2019, and first went into impact for the 2020 reporting 12 months. As part of these mandates, state residents should acquire protection or face a penalty. To assist every state’s authorities implement this, employers should full extra ACA reporting obligations.
By means of the gathering of ACA 1095-C varieties from employers, state companies can determine which staff acquire protection by way of their employer and may cross reference it with info obtained from the state well being trade.
Residents present in violation of Rhode Island’s Particular person Mandate for the 2022 tax 12 months can face a penalty of $695 for adults, and $347.50 for youngsters, or 2.5% of gross earnings if the people are above the tax submitting threshold, whichever is larger.
Right now there is no such thing as a extra ACA penalty for employers that fail to fulfill the extra reporting necessities of Rhode Island.
Upcoming ACA reporting deadlines
As a reminder, the state ACA submitting necessities in Rhode Island, California, New Jersey, Washington D.C., and Massachusetts are along with the federal necessities underneath the ACA’s Employer Mandate.
Underneath the ACA’s Employer Mandate, Relevant Giant Employers, or employers with 50 or extra full-time staff and full-time equal staff should:
- Supply Minimal Important Protection to no less than 95% of their full-time staff (and their dependents) whereby such protection meets the Minimal Worth
- Make sure that the protection for the full-time worker is inexpensive primarily based on one of many IRS-approved strategies for calculating affordability
The federal IRS submitting deadline for the 2022 tax 12 months is February 28, 2023, if paper submitting, and March 31, 2023, if submitting electronically.
Organizations should additionally meet the federal furnishing necessities as properly – the deadline to furnish the 2022 1095-C varieties is March 2, 2023. Rhode Island employers ought to observe that assembly the federal furnishing deadline satisfies the state requirement, so they won’t must furnish twice.
Assist with ACA state reporting
Assembly the necessities of the ACA’s Employer Mandate is tough by itself. Once you throw extra state ACA reporting obligations into the combination, it makes upholding compliance all of the more difficult. Failing to conform will be pricey too. Now that the IRS has acquired a further $80 billion in funding and has cleared its historic backlog, the company is ramping up enforcement and is projected to extend ACA penalty assessments over the following a number of months.
Thankfully, organizations have options for managing ACA compliance tasks and state reporting duties. Trusaic’s full-service resolution, ACA Full, tracks staff for healthcare eligibility, calculates affordability, establishes the suitable measurement methodology, develops an IRS audit protection, and meets each IRS and state submitting/furnishing necessities.
With the stakes for ACA non-compliance rising, organizations should proceed with warning. To see how ACA Full may also help your enterprise, contact us to schedule a demo. Should you join earlier than December 31, 2022, we’ll waive your complete setup price.
For extra info on 2022 ACA deadlines, penalty quantities, affordability calculations, and 5 frequent ACA compliance errors to keep away from, obtain the 2022 ACA 101 Toolkit beneath.
If your enterprise wants help assembly their ACA submitting deadlines this 12 months, contact us to study ACA Full. Our all-in-one service can maintain monitor of your workforce’s employment durations, assist set up affordability and file and furnish Types 1094-C and 1095-C yearly.
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Rhode Island
RI Lottery Mega Millions, Lucky For Life winning numbers for April 4, 2025
The Rhode Island Lottery offers multiple draw games for those aiming to win big. Here’s a look at April 4, 2025, results for each game:
Winning Mega Millions numbers from April 4 drawing
11-28-35-37-69, Mega Ball: 25, Megaplier: 2
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Winning Lucky For Life numbers from April 4 drawing
01-04-11-22-32, Lucky Ball: 06
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Winning Numbers numbers from April 4 drawing
Midday: 4-8-7-0
Evening: 7-8-9-7
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Winning Wild Money numbers from April 4 drawing
01-05-06-07-28, Extra: 30
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Feeling lucky? Explore the latest lottery news & results
Are you a winner? Here’s how to claim your prize
- Prizes less than $600 can be claimed at any Rhode Island Lottery Retailer. Prizes of $600 and above must be claimed at Lottery Headquarters, 1425 Pontiac Ave., Cranston, Rhode Island 02920.
- Mega Millions and Powerball jackpot winners can decide on cash or annuity payment within 60 days after becoming entitled to the prize. The annuitized prize shall be paid in 30 graduated annual installments.
- Winners of the Lucky for Life top prize of $1,000 a day for life and second prize of $25,000 a year for life can decide to collect the prize for a minimum of 20 years or take a lump sum cash payment.
When are the Rhode Island Lottery drawings held?
- Powerball: 10:59 p.m. ET on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
- Mega Millions: 11:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday and Friday.
- Lucky for Life: 10:30 p.m. ET daily.
- Numbers (Midday): 1:30 p.m. ET daily.
- Numbers (Evening): 7:29 p.m. ET daily.
- Wild Money: 7:29 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
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Rhode Island
Irish ‘traveling conman’ charged in $2m home repair scam in R.I., Mass. – The Boston Globe

O’Brien and others are accused of defrauding property owners by convincing them to pay for home repairs that were not needed and often not completed. He is also accused of misrepresenting the qualifications of his purported construction business, Traditional Masonry & Construction, according to court documents.
O’Brien’s alleged scheme came to the attention of authorities when an 83-year-old Warwick homeowner contacted the Warwick Police Department to complain that he had been defrauded by a contractor.
The homeowner, identified as Victim 1 in court documents, reported that O’Brien told him that, while doing work in the neighborhood, he spotted cracks in the foundation of the man’s home, court documents state.
“O’Brien informed Victim 1 that he was from Ireland,” stated an affidavit in support of the arrest warrant. “Victim 1 stated that he felt a bond with O’Brien over their shared heritage, and that this bond caused Victim 1 to ‘trust’ O’Brien.”
The homeowner paid O’Brien $9,500 to repair the foundation, but as work proceeded, O’Brien allegedly claimed he found further damage and asked the homeowner for $80,000, according to court documents. The man was set to take out a line of credit when police intervened.
A home inspector hired by the US Attorney’s Office later reviewed the property and found no need for extensive foundation repairs.
Court documents say other alleged victims have described similar interactions with O’Brien that began with unsolicited recommendations for small home repairs, followed by claims that he’d discovered the need for major repairs.
The victims included four homeowners in Warwick, two in Providence, one in Pawtucket, and one in West Roxbury, Mass., according to an affidavit written by an East Providence police officer on a Homeland Security Investigations task force.
Investigators say they found hundreds of fliers in the Traditional Masonry & Construction truck identical to the ones handed to victims, and they found four binders containing quotes, contracts, and invoices dated between April 2024 and March 2025.
The contracts, ranging from $300 to $205,000, totaled $1,987,650, according to court documents.
Federal authorities said the alleged scheme, known as “traveling conman fraud,” is becoming increasingly common throughout the United States.
According to the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center, conmen travelers are groups of residents of Ireland or the United Kingdom who enter the United States on pleasure or tourist visas and overstay their visits or, more commonly, enter the country illegally. Once in the United States, they go to different cities and states, soliciting construction work, according to court documents.
The conmen often hire day laborers. They lack work authorization documents and permits, and do low-quality, unnecessary, or incomplete work. And sometimes they damage homes, authorities said.
O’Brien appeared before US District Court Magistrate Judge Patricia A. Sullivan on Thursday. Sullivan appointed an attorney to represent him, ordered him detained, and scheduled a status conference/preliminary hearing for April 11.
Precautions recommended to consumers:
The US Attorney’s Office and Homeland Security Investigations recommend consumers take steps to avoid being defrauded:
- Be cautious with unsolicited solicitations from contractors who show up at your door saying they noticed a problem that needs to be fixed.
- Don’t fall victim to high pressure scare tactics. Proceed cautiously before you commit to work, and only after getting at least one second opinion and cost estimate.
- Before hiring any contractor for a large job, make sure they have a legitimate business address and consider going there to verify that the business exists.
- Verify that the contractor is licensed before agreeing to have any work started. In Rhode Island, go to the Contractors’ Registration and Licensing Board website. In Massachusetts, go to the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation website.
- Ensure the contractor obtains permits to do the work from your local city or town before work begins. Ask to see the permit and verify its authenticity with your city or town.
- Don’t leave new or unfamiliar contractors alone at your house – even if they’re working outside. They sometimes intentionally cause damage. Keep a close eye on work being done.
- If you or someone you know believes they’re victims of the traveling conman fraud scheme, contact Homeland Security Investigations via email at HSINewEnglandVictimAssistance@hsi.dhs.gov.
Edward Fitzpatrick can be reached at edward.fitzpatrick@globe.com. Follow him @FitzProv.
Rhode Island
‘These are dark times for everybody’: Hundreds tell R.I.’s congressmen about their frustration with the Trump administration – The Boston Globe

The two town halls were the first the Rhode Island congressmen have held since President Trump took office in January.
Many of the Rhode Islanders at Magaziner’s event said they were afraid that democracy was dying, and they wanted to know how to stop it.
“I am sick and tired of Rhode Island’s delegation not standing up in the way it should as a progressive state,” said one woman at Magaziner’s town hall, her voice cracking. “You have a role to play in Rhode Island to do more and to engage in civil disobedience. What are you going to do to stop Musk and the oligarchs from taking over the very little left of our representative democracy?”
People loudly applauded. Magaziner, a Democrat first elected to Rhode Island’s Second Congressional District in 2022, said he was doing all he could.
“It takes all of us, right? We need to be making a case to the public. We need to be doing what we can legislatively, we need to be doing what we can in the courts. It’s an all-hands-on deck moment,” Magaziner told the crowd. “The fact that you are all here tonight, when you could be doing anything else, gives me a lot of hope.”

In East Greenwich, except for a Cranston woman wearing a Make America Great Again shirt — who challenged Magaziner not to criticize Trump — the crowd was overwhelmingly upset about the country’s direction under Trump and Elon Musk.
They spoke of the higher prices, the tariffs, the ransacking of government agencies by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency without accountability.
Jen Manzi of Cranston said her preteen daughter needed an individualized education program at her school, but the Department of Education was being cut. She feared she would fall behind in school.
“I’m worried about my kid’s rights, and right now, they’re under attack,” Manzi said, beginning to cry.
The cuts made by DOGE are short-sighted for all Americans, Suzanne Colby, a Warwick resident and a research professor at Brown University, told Magaziner.
Her work involves studying the impact of tobacco products on young people, with funding from the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products. It’s the kind of research that led to the FDA’s ban of sweet-flavored vaping products for teens, which the Supreme Court upheld on Wednesday.
But the FDA has been cut, and with it, the funding that scientists like Colby rely on. In the long run, this loss and others will impact people’s lives, and that’s not a partisan issue, she said.
“I think there’s an element missing from the public discourse, and that is the cuts that DOGE is making — education, libraries, health and human services, the CDC, FDA, NIH — are going to cost more than they save,” Colby said. “Because they’re preventative in nature, because they protect our public health and help our children thrive and grow and succeed, we will spend more because these cuts are being made.”

Magaziner said he’d called the president of Brown University after hearing about funding cuts. He said he’d spoken to Textron and Electric Boat about how the tariffs were going to effect them.
He urged people to stay informed and engaged, and to keep speaking out.
“We’re living in truly unprecedented times,” Magaziner said, “because in my view President Trump is taking an alarming array of actions to expand his own executive power at the expense of checks and balances that our country is founded on.”
At Amo’s town hall in East Providence, Neronha told hundreds of people packed into the school auditorium that “more lawsuits are coming.”
Neronha, alongside dozens of other attorneys general, have filed numerous lawsuits against Trump policies that have resulted in court injunctions. “What we have done is effectively stopped the administration in its tracks.”

Al Soares, a 74-year-old lifelong East Providence resident, said he was afraid of Medicare cuts. Soares, who stood using a walker, said he lives in an assisted living facility.
“And I thank God for it,” Soares said. “I’m petrified … if they take away my Medicare, you know where I end up? On the street.”
Other constituents said they were fearful of immigration enforcement, proposed restrictions on voter registration, and funding cuts for farmers, health care workers and nonprofits.
“I’m not a hair-on-fire kind of person, but this is unprecedented,” said Amo, who was first elected to Rhode Island’s First Congressional District in 2023. “This is not normal.”
Renee Boyce, 37, an unaffiliated voter, said she’s not happy with either side, as housing costs and inflation have soared.
“As much as I don’t like Trump, I want to know what you’re going to do to fight about that,” Boyce said to Amo. “When it comes to DOGE, I actually did support government efficiency. Because I think there were spending problems.”
“Right now, we are in a defensive posture,” Amo responded. “There was a world where people in Washington used to sit and talk with each other about solutions. That is not happening right now.”
He added that Trump’s “stupid, boneheaded tariff regime” would further increase costs.
Afterwards, Boyce told the Globe: “These are dark times for everybody.”
Neighbors and retirees Judy Bessoff and Gale Dyer of West Greenwich came an hour early to hear Magaziner and said they want to pressure the Democrats to take action.
“I’m concerned about the whole kit and kaboodle, and the dismantling of our government without regard for jobs and lives,” said Dyer.
Bessoff said she wanted to know why Trump was being allowed to skirt the Constitution, and why no one was stopping him. “I’ve been hearing people saying this is not what I voted for.”
“It doesn’t give you a whole lot of faith in the government,” she added. “You used to feel safe and secure. Now, it just feels nebulous.”
Amanda Milkovits can be reached at amanda.milkovits@globe.com. Follow her @AmandaMilkovits. Steph Machado can be reached at steph.machado@globe.com. Follow her @StephMachado.
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