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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has issued an advisory opinion finding that a group health plan proposed by the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation for its members’ employees would be considered an employee welfare benefit plan under federal law. The department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration determined in the advisory opinion that, if established, the IFBF’s proposed plan for employees of its 10,770 members would be an employee welfare benefit plan under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. The IFBF may now rely on this guidance to establish the plan. This advisory opinion advances President Donald Trump’s mission of providing better healthcare at lower