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The article focuses on comparing flexible spending accounts (FSAs) and health savings accounts (HSAs), highlighting their tax benefits and downsides, including forfeiting contributions, contribution limits, and strategies to avoid leaving money unused.

In the article, the author offers tips to flexible spending account (FSA) holders in the U.S. to check their balance and monitor the deadline for using it on health costs due to the impending expiration of elastic rules implemented during the coronavirus pandemic.

The article discusses approaches for maximizing one's U.S. social security benefits in retirement, highlighting the work of economist Laurence J. Kotlikoff, particularly his "Get What's Yours" guide to social security. The author also highlights other potentially confusing financial issues, including health care flexible spending accounts (F.S.A.s), and the political aspects of the difficulties of managing personal finances in the U.S. are discussed.

The article states that employees of U.S. companies that offer standard health care benefits can specify an extra $50 in health care flexible spending accounts in 2015 and discusses U.S. legislation concerning dependent care accounts and the taxation of such accounts. The article offers comments from the Washington, D.C., organization the Tax Policy Center senior research associate Elaine Maag.

The article reports on a grace period given to employees for ther flexible health spending account (FSA), with key topics inclduing the maximum amount of the account, the use of FSA for over-the-counter (OTC) medicine payments, and its similarity to a health savings account.

The article offers the author's insights on aspects of flexible spending accounts (F.S.A.s), which could save money through allowing people use pretax dollars to pay for health plan cost.

The article reports on the changes made by the U.S. federal government on the rules governing flexible spending arrangements (FSA), which would give employers the option to allow as much as $500 of unspent balance to be carried over in an FSA.

The article offers information on the flexible spending arrangements (FSA) which is used to help people in saving money through deferring money pretax to pay for expenses which are not covered by health insurance plans such as coinsurance, dental and vision costs, and co-payments.

The article offers the author's insights concerning the different functions of the two types of accounts such as the flexible-spending arrangement and the health savings accounts.