Congress could reconsider FSA restrictions

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Aug 22 2011

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Minnesota Public Radio: Congress Reconsiders Restrictions On Flexible Spending Accounts For Health Care
Bills floating through Congress would lift some restrictions on flexible spending accounts and allow employees to set aside pre-tax earnings to pay for out-of-pocket health care expenses. ... Not everyone realized last January that they could no longer use their flex account dollars for over-the-counter medicines such as vitamin supplements or allergy drugs (Stawicki, 8/22).

This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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