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Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

You can set aside money in Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) before taxes are deducted to pay for

certain health and dependent care expenses, lowering your taxable income and increasing your take
home pay. Only expenses for services incurred during the plan year are eligible for reimbursement
from your accounts. You choose to receive reimbursement for your eligible expenses by direct
deposit or reimbursement check. You must re-enroll each year, even if you do not plan to change
the amount(s) set aside.

Health Care Spending Account (HCSA): Employees may defer up to $2,700 (pre-tax) per
year, to be reimbursed for prescriptions, insurance deductibles, co-payments, glasses and contact
lenses, orthodontia and other health care related expenses not covered by insurance. Participants
may carry over up to $500 of the unused funds to the following plan year. The funds must be used
with the following plan year or they will be forfeited.
IMPORTANT
Dependent Care Assistance Plan (DCAP): Employees may defer up to $5,000 (pre-tax) per NOTE ABOUT
year, to pay for eligible child and/or elder care expenses.
THE FSA:
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) FSAs offer sizable tax
advantages. The trade-
Westmark School offers a confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) at no charge to off is that these
employees through Guardian. This plan provides you and your family members with unlimited accounts are subject to
telephonic consultations for a wide range of emotional health, family and work issues including strict IRS regulations,
marital/family/relationship, personal/emotional, psychological disorders, workplace stress, and including the use-it-or-
grief. lose-it rule. According
to this rule, you must
The plan also includes web-based services for a wide variety of issues, such as: work related forfeit any money left
problems, marriage/family problems, alcohol and substance abuse, personal/stress related in your account(s)
problems, legal or financial problems and psychological/psychiatric disorders. You may call the EAP after your expenses for
24/7 CONFIDENTIAL line at (800) 386-7055. the year have been

reimbursed. The IRS
Pet Insurance does not allow the
return of unused
United Pet Care (UPC) | Discount Plan account balances at
With the United Pet Care (UPC) discount plan, you can reduce the cost of your veterinary bills by the end of the plan
saving up to 50% on each veterinary visit for your pet when you visit a contracted UPC provider. year, and only up to
This plan offers discounts for office visits, procedures, medications, and more. With UPC’s program, $500 can be carried
there are no deductibles, no claim forms, no exclusions due to pre-existing conditions or age, no over for the HCSA. For
annual dollar limitations, no waiting periods, and no limit on the number of visits annually. Two the DCAP, remaining
discount program options are available through UPC. balances cannot be
carried forward to a
future plan year. If
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