Top 5 Benefits of a Health Savings Account
How to handle health insurance benefits is a question more than one business owner has wrestled with over the years. You want to help employees as best you can with a rock-solid medical plan, but you also want to do what is best for the company's bottom line. Finding that sweet spot is a lot like finding the perfect Christmas gift. Visit: https://employers.benefitmall.com/blog/2020-hsa-numbers-released-heres-what-you-need-know
How to handle health insurance benefits is a question more than one business owner has wrestled with over the years. You want to help employees as best you can with a rock-solid medical plan, but you also want to do what is best for the company's bottom line. Finding that sweet spot is a lot like finding the perfect Christmas gift. Visit: https://employers.benefitmall.com/blog/2020-hsa-numbers-released-heres-what-you-need-know
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2. Other Contributions<br />
HSAs do not have to be funded exclusively by employers and employees. Other people can contribute to an HSA as well.<br />
Annual limits are still in place, but everyone from an employee's parents to her best friend from high school can<br />
contribute to her account if they so choose.<br />
3. Benefit Portability<br />
Unlike health insurance plans, employees own their HSAs. That means the accounts are portable. An employee with<br />
several thousand dollars in his HSA takes that money with him should he change jobs. The new employer can contribute<br />
to the account as well.<br />
4. Rolling over Unused Funds<br />
Even though HSAs come with contribution limits, there is no mandate to actually spend the money. Any money left over<br />
at the end <strong>of</strong> the year automatically rolls into the following year while contribution limits are reset. In simple terms,<br />
employees can continually accumulate funds in their HSAs until a genuine need arises.<br />
There is a caveat here: the IRS considers transferring funds from one HSA to another as a rollover. There are some<br />
conditions on such activity. First <strong>of</strong> all, only one such transfer is allowed per 365 days. So if an employee makes a<br />
transfer on June 1, another transfer cannot be made until June 1 the following year.<br />
The second condition stipulates that the employee must complete the transfer within 60 days <strong>of</strong> withdrawing from the<br />
original HSA. Miss that 60-day deadline and the withdrawn money is now subject to taxation.<br />
5. Qualifying Expenses<br />
Finally, HSAs cover many more qualifying expenses than most people know. You can use money in an HSA to pay for<br />
prescription medications, cover the co-pay for an <strong>of</strong>fice visit, or even pay for tests or treatments your medical insurance<br />
will not cover. And because most HSAs these days issue debit cards, making payment is quite convenient.<br />
Combining HSAs with HDHPs is one way to address the medical plan component <strong>of</strong> your benefits package. It is at least<br />
worth looking into if your company does not currently <strong>of</strong>fer an HSA.