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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Cafeteria plans (125, flexible spending) Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines [Guidance Overview] Minnesota Enacts Relief on Employer Reporting Requirement and Minnesota Department of Commerce Releases Opt-Out Form [Opinion] Curbing Flexible Spending Accounts Could Help Pay For Health Care Reform [Guidance Overview] Bureau of Labor Statistics Data on Employee Access to 'Other Types of Benefits,' 1979-2008 Text of Comments by Employers Council on Flexible Compensation Concerning Proposed Tax Law Changes for FSAs, HRAs and Employer-Provided Health Coverage in General [Guidance Overview] Proposed Cafeteria Plan Regulations Require Employer Action [Opinion] Curbing Flexible Spending Accounts Could Help Pay for Health Care Reform [Guidance Overview] Minnesota Posts Employer Opt-Out for Cafeteria Plan Mandate Benefits Card Increases Appeal of Tax-Favored Accounts [Guidance Overview] Two New Minnesota Health Benefits-Related Laws [Guidance Overview] IRS Explaination on Why Standard Mileage Rate for Medical Expenses Is Substantially Less Than Rate for Business Expenses [Guidance Overview] Breast Pumps Used for General Health Are Not Medical Care Expenses Changes Sought for FSA Rules Bill Would Put LTC on Cafeteria Menu Consumer-Directed Plans, FSAs Attract Well-Paid, Well Educated Employees, According to Study [Guidance Overview] Cafeteria Plan Regulations and Partnerships and Stockholders [Guidance Overview] IRS Discussion of Deductibility of Nursing Home Care for Individual With Alzheimer's Disease [Guidance Overview] Employee Benefits Issues to Consider in a Reduction in Force Oklahoma Health Care Measure Would Provide Incentives to Businesses FSA Changes Sought [Guidance Overview] Recent Legislation Requires Numerous Changes to Group Health Plans When Is $100 Worth $155? If You're in 28 Percent Tax Bracket, That's the Value of Paying for Personal Expenses with Pre-Tax Dollars [Guidance Overview] New Federal SCHIP Law Requires Cafeteria and Health Plan Amendments [Guidance Overview] Expenses Incurred to Father Children Through Unrelated Egg Donor and Gestational Carriers Were Not for Medical Care Making the Most of Flexible Spending Accounts [Guidance Overview] Recent Guidance Impacting Employer Group Health Plans (PDF) [Guidance Overview] IRS's 2008 Version of Publication 969 on HSAs, HRAs, Health FSAs,and MSAs [Guidance Overview] Action May be Required by December 31, 2008 to Comply with Proposed Cafeteria Plan Regulations (PDF) Upgraded Technology Better Itemizes FSA Debit Card Expenses Towers Perrin U.S. Legislative Tracking Chart: Health & Welfare (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Transition Relief Extended for Using Health FSA and HRA Debit Cards at Drug Stores and Pharmacies [Guidance Overview] 401(k), Pension, and Welfare Plans: 2008 Year-End Compliance Matters (PDF) [Guidance Overview] IRS Provides Transition Relief for the Use of Health FSA and HRA Debit Cards at Drug Stores and Pharmacies [Official Guidance] Text of IRS Notice 2008-104: Additional Transition Relief on Use of Debit Cards for Medical Expense Reimbursements (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Three-Cent Decrease in 2009 Mileage Rate for Transportation to Obtain Medical Care or as Part of Deductible Moving Expenses Using Section 125 Premium-Only Plans to Expand Healthcare Coverage by Employers (PDF) [Guidance Overview] IRS Releases 2008 Forms 2441 and 1040A (Schedule 2) [Guidance Overview] 2008 Year-End Benefits Planning [Guidance Overview] Hewitt's Global Retirement Update for November 2008 [Guidance Overview] 2008 Year-End Plan Sponsor 'To Do' Lists (PDF) [Guidance Overview] 2008 Year-End Checkup for Pension and Welfare Benefit Plans (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Distributions from Health FSAs to Employees on Active Military Duty [Guidance Overview] Five New Health Plan Compliance Developments Need Consideration (PDF) [Guidance Overview] New FSA Withdrawal Feature for Eligible Reservists: Amending Cafeteria Plans Following the HEART Act [Guidance Overview] Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008: Impact on Health Care Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption Act Amends Tax Code Definition of Qualifying Child [Guidance Overview] IRS Explains That Certain Legal Fees and Mileage Qualify as Medical Care Expenses, but Infant Formula Does Not [Guidance Overview] Reservists Don't Have to Use or Lose Their Health Flexible Spending Accounts (PDF) [Guidance Overview] IRS Guidance on Health FSA Distributions Under the Heart Act [Guidance Overview] Health FSAs: IRS Issues Guidance on New 'Qualified Reservist Distributions' [Guidance Overview] Adoptions Act Narrows the Definition of Qualifying Child Under Code Section 152 States Use of 'Cafeteria Plans' to Provide Health Insurance [Guidance Overview] IRS Details for Qualified Reservist Distribution from Health Flexible Spending Accounts [Guidance Overview] IRS Guidance on FSA Distributions under the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act (PDF) [Guidance Overview] IRS Guidance on Qualified Reservist Distributions Addresses Many Open Issues IRS Provides Guidance on Reservist FSA Distributions Recognizing the Value of Flexible Benefits in Asia [Guidance Overview] Treasury Dept. and IRS 2008-2009 Priority Guidance Plan Includes Guidance for Cafeteria and Health Plans HSAs, FSAs, HRAs: Which Consumer Driven Health Care Option Should You Choose? (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Impact of the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008 on Employee Benefit Plans (PDF) [Guidance Overview] REMINDER: January 1, 2009 Proposed Effective Date for New Cafeteria Plan Regulations 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. But BenefitsLink is not the author or publisher of those linked pages (except as expressly indicated). You should contact directly the author of any such linked pages for copyright or other information about their contents. Webmaster: Dave Baker (click)   ·   © 2009 BenefitsLink.com, Inc. (contact the webmaster for reprint permission)   ·   Linking: Feel free to link directly to this page, even without specifically crediting BenefitsLink ® as its source. Glad you're here!   ·   Privacy Policy