Flexible Spending Accounts

Contributions to an Optum Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for healthcare and dependent care expenses are tax-free, allowing you to save money on your federal and state income taxes and Social Security taxes.

• Healthcare FSA
  If you don’t have access to an HSA, you’re eligible to have a Healthcare FSA to cover healthcare, prescription drug, dental and vision expenses. You can contribute up to $2,750 a year.

• Dependent Care FSA
  A Dependent Care FSA can help you pay dependent care expenses. These include daycare expenses and summer camps for children under age 13 and care for an elderly parent. You can contribute up to $5,000 a year or $ 2,500 if you’re married and file separate income tax returns.

• Limited Purpose FSA
  Those enrolled in the Consumer Choice HSA healthcare plan can contribute up to $ 2,750 annually to a Limited Purpose FSA, which can be used for eligible dental and vision expenses only.

Plan carefully! IRS rules require you to forfeit any balance left in your FSAs at the end of the year — the “use it or lose it” rule. You must incur eligible expenses by December 31, 2021, and submit them for reimbursement before March 15, 2022.