What You Can (and Should) Buy With Your 2025 FSA Before the Year Ends

However, FSA funds have an expiration date; you'll lose the money unless you spend it before the deadline. As the end of 2025 ...

Health Savings Account (HSA) vs. Flexible Spending Account (FSA): What to Know Before You Enroll

HSAs and FSAs differ tremendously in terms of when you have to spend the money in your account and what you can do with it. Though these accounts have some similarities, they are very different beasts ...
InsuranceNewsNet

UNDERSTANDING HEALTH INSURANCE | HSA vs. FSA: Clearing up the confusion before your money disappears

Many people set aside money for health expenses through FSAs and HSAs. But confusion about how these accounts work is common— and it can cost you. If you've ever rushed to spend your FSA dollars ...
The Daily Overview on MSN

FSA funds will soon expire, don't let use it or lose it catch you

As the year progresses, many employees are reminded of the importance of managing their Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) to ...
Wall Street Journal

FSA vs. HSA: What’s the Difference and How to Pick the Right Account for You

Martha C. White is a contributor to Buy Side from WSJ and a finance expert, specializing in banking, loans and credit cards. Paying for healthcare is expensive, even with insurance. In fact, the ...
Military Times

Military to offer tax-saving health care accounts for troops

Service members will have another way to save money on their taxes in 2025, as defense officials are working to offer health care flexible spending accounts. Defense officials are currently ...
Medical News Today

What to know about a flexible spending account

A flexible spending account (FSA) is a special employer spending account. It allows a person to use tax-free money on health-related expenses such as prescription medications and medical devices.

HSA purchases expanding beyond typical healthcare costs

Hot tub purchases and bicycles for physical therapy are among the unusual HSA reimbursements, but experts warn that one ...
Stars and Stripes

Active-duty troops eligible for flexible health care spending accounts next year

Many service members may enroll in a tax-advantaged flexible spending account starting next year to help pay medical expenses not covered by Tricare, a Department of Defense spokesman told Stars and ...
Military Times

New benefit could help troops save on out-of-pocket health care costs

A new benefit announced Friday by the Defense Department could help troops save money on health care items. (C. Todd Lopez/Army) A new benefit coming to service members in 2025 could help defray their ...
NPR

You need to spend all the money in your Flexible Spending Accounts. Here's why

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with UCLA Professor Steve Bank about why employees must spend all the money in their Flexible Spending Accounts by a certain date or forfeit the balance to their employers.

As health insurance costs climb, how to make the most of medical spending before year's end

Medical expenses are often unpredictable and unwelcome, but there may be some strategies that help lessen the sting of them.