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- From: tdj@bbt.com (Todd Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Cafeteria Health-Care Program: HELP?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.132913.7394@bbt.com>
- Organization: BroadBand Technologies, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC
- References: <1992Dec14.163128.361@hsh.com> <1992Dec17.230042.2523@panix.com> <168C112E60.MCMASTER@LSTC2VM.stortek.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 13:29:13 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- In article <168C112E60.MCMASTER@LSTC2VM.stortek.com> MCMASTER@LSTC2VM.stortek.com (Jim McMaster) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec17.230042.2523@panix.com>
- >eck@panix.com (Mark Eckenwiler) writes:
- >
- >>
- >>On the other hand, if your wife leaves her job during the year, she
- >>can nevertheless be reimbursed (under health care, NOT dependent care)
- >>up to the *full amount she would have paid into the account over a
- >>full year*. (Dependent care is pay-as-you-go, at least here.) Thus,
- >>if she agreed to have $10/week deducted for medical, and left after
- >>only 4 weeks of January, she would pay only $40 for having as much as
- >>$520 of free NON-taxable benefits; of course, she would have to incur
- >>the costs in that 4-week period (which isn't so hard to do).
- >>
- >This is not how it worked at my last employer! When I left the
- >company, *all* the contributions for the rest of the year were taken
- >out of my final paycheck. I then had until the end if the calendar
- >year to use them up, as if I had stayed. THis seems to be standard
- >practice.
-
- At my last employer, I only lost what I put in up to the time I left.
- Nothing extra was taken from my final paycheck.
- >
- >>The theory here is that just as the employee bears the risk of
- >>forfeiting excess, so the employer (who must pay the difference in a
- >>shortfall situation) bears a risk to offset the tax benefits of the
- >>program.
- >>
- >No way. The employer does not bear any risk. Why in the world would
- >they set up such a plan if they risked money?
-
- I totally agree with the above statement. The employer does not
- bear any risk.
-
- Todd
-
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