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10-19-2007, 11:20 PM	#1
Martha Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: minnesota Posts: 13,228	(FAQ archive) Health Savings Accounts (HSA) This IRS publication discusses Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), Flexible Spending Arrangements (FSAs) and other mechanisms to save for health care expenses: Publication 969 (2006), Health Savings Accounts and Other Tax-Favored Health Plans This IRS publication discusses what medical expenses can be paid from an HSA or FSA: Publication 502 (2006), Medical and Dental Expenses The US Department of Treasury has a web site devoted to HSAs: U.S. Treasury - Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) This Treasury Department brochure has a very complete discussion of HSAs: http://www.treas.gov/offices/public-...SAs_051807.pdf It discusses HSA qualified plans, contribution limits and rules, distributions, issues peculiar to families, treatment on death, HSA custodians, and rollovers. One more excellent web site on HSAs is Health Saving Accounts, HSA, Reduce Health Insurance Cost, Tax Free Withdrawal, Medical Savings Account Transfers, MSA, No Load Mutual Fund. Frayne's summary about how HSAs work: http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...tml#post570261 Tombone Al’s thoughts on why HSAs are worthwhile: http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ary-19292.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ons-30591.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ern-30607.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ion-30243.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...hsa-29697.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ing-29496.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ans-28720.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ter-28241.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ory-27808.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ist-27998.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ges-14420.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ion-17607.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ses-27566.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ule-27124.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...age-27016.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ons-26858.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...-er-26991.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...sas-26545.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...are-24734.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ool-26440.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...nce-26085.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...nce-25813.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ion-24447.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...hsa-25652.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ons-23734.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ons-23888.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...xes-23067.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...hsa-22759.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...hts-20223.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ing-20408.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ard-20081.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ing-18689.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...sas-18672.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ing-18689.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ion-17302.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...nce-15916.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...owd-16098.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...unt-15634.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...nts-14534.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ere-14705.html HSA account custodians: http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...hsa-30576.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...unt-29514.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ans-28610.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...red-24801.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...-vg-22036.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...rch-19196.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...ian-18691.html Differences between HSAs and FSAs: http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...unt-30005.html http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...act-23591.html __________________ . No more lawyer stuff, no more political stuff, so no more CYA

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11-22-2009, 08:45 PM	#2
Martha Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: minnesota Posts: 13,228	A more recent (2009) thread that talks about HSA custodians is here: http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...unt-47408.html __________________ . No more lawyer stuff, no more political stuff, so no more CYA

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