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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Cafeteria plans (125, flexible spending) Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines [Opinion] Over-the-Counter (OTC) Medicine Saves Healthcare System Billions IRS 2011 Version of Publication 969 on HSAs, HRAs, Health FSAs, and MSAs The Do-It-Yourself Health Savings Account IRS Issues 2011 Versions of Publications on Medical and Dental Expenses and on Child and Dependent Care Expenses [Guidance Overview] Update on Fiscal Year Health FSAs and the $2,500 Limit [Guidance Overview] Two New Cafeteria Plan Requirements Begin Affecting Plans in 2013 [Guidance Overview] Health FSA Dollar Limit for 2013 Impacts Some Fiscal Year Plans Now 11 Tips to Empty Your Flex-Spending Account Flexible Spending Account Deadline Near [Guidance Overview] Must FSAs Offer COBRA to Terminated Employees? [Guidance Overview] San Francisco's New Rules on Health Reimbursement Arrangements [Guidance Overview] Updates on Health and Welfare Benefit Developments, Dec. 12, 2011 Sending Out 2011 With a Rush on Flexible Spending Some Help Getting Reimbursed for OTC Drugs Through Your Flexible Spending Account A New Rule Is Making Flexible Spending Accounts Less Easy to Use, Say Experts [Opinion] A Dozen Ideas for Flexible Benefits in 2012 [Guidance Overview] IRS Information Letters Address Unique Qualifying Medical Expenses The Global Added Value of Flexible Benefits (PDF) IRS Reminds Participants That Plans Are Not Required to Reimburse All Eligible Medical Care Expenses [Guidance Overview] Special Foods? Hearing Aid Repairs? Now They're Deductible [Guidance Overview] IRS Explains When Special Foods Will Qualify as Medical Care Expenses Employees Underutilizing FSAs [Opinion] Comments by Employers Council on Flexible Compensation on IRS Notice 2011-35: Fees on HRAs and FSAs for Funding of Comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research (PDF) [Opinion] Consumer Directed Health Coalition Letter regarding Patients' Freedom to Choose Act (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Payments to Caregivers Are Deductible as Qualified Long-Term Care Expenses FSA Advocates Push to End Cap on Contributions [Guidance Overview] Cafeteria Plans Elections: When Should Requested Mid-Year Changes Be Approved? Bill Would Allow Consumers to Withdraw FSA Funds at End of Year Bill Introduced to Undo HSA Health Law Provision TRI-AD's Health and Welfare NewsLink, May 2011 IRS and Treasury Officials Provide Informal Views on Wellness, Health FSA, and HSA Issues [Guidance Overview] Deadline Approaching to Amend Cafeteria Plan Documents 2011 Deadlines Loom for Plan Amendments for Health FSA Over-the-Counter Medication and Other Health Care Reform Requirements [Guidance Overview] June 30 Amendment Deadline Looms for Cafeteria Plans and HRAs [Guidance Overview] Amend Health Care Flexible Spending Account / Health Care Reimbursement Plans by June 30, 2011 (PDF) Legislation Would Tax Some FSA, HSA Distributions [Guidance Overview] Some Cafeteria Plans Must Be Amended by June 30 (PDF) House Passes Bill Restricting FSA or HSA Abortion Reimbursement Public Employer and Employee Savings on Premium Contributions with a Section 125 Plan FSA Proponents Press Lawmakers for Changes to PPACA Provisions House Committee OKs Bill Restricting FSA, HSA Abortion Reimbursements [Guidance Overview] Cafeteria Plans, HRAs and External Appeals Requirements Text of H.R. 1004: ''Medical FSA Improvement Act of 2011' (PDF) Congressmen Introduce Bill to Drop 'Use it or Lose it' FSA Provision Patients Pound on Doctors' Doors for FSA-Eligible Prescriptions [Guidance Overview] A Review of Recent Developments in Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation [Guidance Overview] IRS Treats Breast Pumps and Lactation Supplies as Medical Care Expenses Legislation Would Give Troops Flexible Spending Accounts [Guidance Overview] IRS Concludes Lactation Supplies Are Tax Deductible Medical Expenses (PDF) [Guidance Overview] IRS Qualifies Breast Pumps and Lactation Supplies as Medical Care Expenses Newly Introduced Bill Would Repeal Limits on FSAs, HSAs Don't Forget to Amend Your Cafeteria Plans [Official Guidance] Text of IRS Announcement 2011-14: Breast Pumps and Lactation Supplies Are Medical Expenses (PDF) Lobbyists Challenging Limits on Health Flexible Spending Accounts [Guidance Overview] Debit Card Reimbursement of Over-the-Counter Drugs [Guidance Overview] New Guidance Permits Use of Debit Cards to Buy OTC Drugs after January 15 [Guidance Overview] IRS's Rule Change on Using Debit Cards for OTC Drugs [Guidance Overview] IRS Clarification of Rules for Debit Cards to Reimburse Over-the-Counter Drugs [Guidance Overview] IRS Guidance on Health FSA and HRA Debit Card Use for Over-the-Counter Drugs [Guidance Overview] IRS Adjusts Rules on Health Insurance Debit Cards Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. 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