cafeteria plans

[Guest GloriaCR]

I submited a enrolment form for my employers cafeteria plan, for the maximum withholding of 2,500. It took me over a week to find a coworker who could give me a form. Human Resourses just gave them to a suppervisor who left them on a table 4 days later when I came to work they were gone and HR refused to give me a copy said they " didn't have enough to give them to every one who had lost them" I finally found a form, photo copied it and turned it in weeks before the deadline.

My employer lost it and never bothered to contact me. Never bothered to check on whos they got back and whos they didn't. or any one elses.

They now say I am not elegiable for the beifit even though I have a photo copy of the form they lost.

My tax savings on 2,500 witholding would be approximently $700. This is over 2 weeks pay for me. Real money. what can I do.

They form said it must be returned even if we were declining the benifit. We were repeatedly told they would hunt down any one who failed to turn it a form. That they leagely had to get a form back one way or another from us. Now HR says law changed and its "Gloria's fault"