Two types of accounts can help you pay for medical costs and have tax benefits, but both also have possible downsides, two recently published reports found.
The two are flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts — better known as F.S.A.s and H.S.A.s.
Workers set aside a fixed amount of money each year to be deducted from their paycheck before taxes, reducing their taxable income while helping them pay for out-of-pocket medical costs.
But if workers change employers, the account doesn’t move with them.
money on eligible care or products, although many employers offer grace periods or the option to roll over some funds from one year to the next.
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