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Protect Your Family: Get a Flu Shot with Your Tax-Free FSA Funds

Benefit Resource Inc.

According to estimates taken between October 1, 2019 to January 25, 2020, there have been approximately: 19,000,000 – 26,000,000 flu-related illnesses. Note that if you have a Limited Care Flexible Spending Account or a Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, these accounts cannot be used to pay for the shot.

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New COVID relief package extends payroll provisions

Business Management Daily

The law also extends expiring tax provisions and everything that could be jammed into 5,593 pages of federal legislation three days before Christmas. The key payroll provisions include: An extension of the paid sick/ family leave provisions and your tax credit for providing leave. Extensions of popular payroll tax provisions.

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HDHPs can cover more preventive services

Business Management Daily

An ounce of prevention may be worth a pound of cure, but up until this point, high-deductible health plans have been boxed in regarding tax-free reimbursements for most preventive care services or items. Reason: With certain exceptions, HDHPs can’t start reimbursing employees until they meet those high deductibles.

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HSA vs. health care FSA: Which is better for you and your employees?

Insperity

HSA is the acronym for health savings account; FSA is the acronym for flexible spending account. An easy, basic way to distinguish what each account is intended for is by focusing on what the letter “S” represents in each: savings and spending. Income tax is still owed on funds taken out of the account for non-eligible expenses.

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4 Strategies to Strengthen Your Benefits Programs

Benefit Resource Inc.

So, Benefit Resource brings you “4 Strategies to Strengthen Your Benefits Programs” 1) Add a Post-deductible HRA with an HSA. So combining an HSA with a post-deductible HRA just sweetens the deal and acts as a bonus. A post-deductible HRA helps limit an employee’s risk. How, might you ask?

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How Employee Perks Can Help Companies in the US

Vantage Circle

A 401(k) is a tax-advantaged retirement savings program provided by employers. In this, employees can elect to have a portion of their earnings automatically deducted from their paychecks and directed into their investment account. By the end of 2019, 42.1% of 401(k) plan participants had their money invested in equity funds.

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AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT CONTAINS MANY EMPLOYEE BENEFITS RELATED PROVISIONS

Benefits Notes

The ARPA also allows the employer, insurer, or multiemployer plan sponsor who subsided the premiums to offset the cost by claiming a new federal tax credit. Health care flexible spending accounts are not subject to the ARPA provisions. The subsidy is tax-free to the individual receiving the subsidy. Tax Credit.