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Employees and Employers Save with Cafeteria Plans

InterWest Insurance Services

These cafeteria plans, which are governed by Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Service Code, allow your employees to withhold a portion of their pre-tax salary to cover certain medical or childcare expenses. Employees can save an average of 30% in federal, state and local taxes on items they already pay for out of pocket.

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Flexible Benefit Plans Give Employees More Options

InterWest Insurance Services

Employers fund these flexible benefit plans with funds that are deducted from their employees’ salaries on a pre-tax basis. Since the salary reductions are not received by the employee, they are not considered wages for income tax purposes. Flexible spending account. Flexible spending accounts.

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How Your Staff Can Save on Childcare, Health Services

InterWest Insurance Services

These plans allow workers to withhold a portion of their pre-tax salary to cover certain medical or childcare expenses. Employees may hold back as much as $5,000 annually of their pre-tax salary for dependent care expenses. The plan offers a simple way to reduce the cost of their benefits.

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New HSA, FSA, 401(k) Contribution Levels Set

InterWest Insurance Services

The IRS has released the 2023 maximum contribution amounts for health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts. They also cover the minimum deductibles that qualify programs as high-deductible health plans (HDHPs), which an HSA must be attached to under law. 7,750 for family coverage (up $450). The takeaway.

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Health Expenses a Major Source of Mental Health Issues for U.S. Workers

InterWest Insurance Services

workers are increasingly having difficulties in paying for health care, particularly due to high copays, deductibles and other health plan cost-sharing elements. It stressed two main points: High deductibles — The report found one of the main drivers of stress was high deductibles and other out-of-pocket costs.

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IRS Announces Cost-of-Living Adjustments for Health and Welfare Plans

McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

The maximum salary reduction limit for a health flexible spending account (Health FSA) increased to $3,050 for 2023 (from $2,850 in 2022), and the Health FSA carryover […]. The post IRS Announces Cost-of-Living Adjustments for Health and Welfare Plans appeared first on EMPLOYEE BENEFITS BLOG.

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Leap year! How to handle 27 biweekly payrolls in 2020

Business Management Daily

Only exempts and salaried nonexempts feel the full brunt of the 27th/53rd pay period phenomenon, because they’re paid annual salaries. Hourly-paid nonexempts are impacted only to the extent of withholding and deductions. You have three choices for your exempts and salaried nonexempts, but no choice is trouble-free.

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