Flexible Spending Accounts
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) allow you to contribute - through payroll deduction on a pre-tax basis - to a health care and/or dependent care spending account. You request reimbursement from your accounts for eligible expenses as outlined by the IRS.
- Benefit Summary - Flexible Spending Accounts (.pdf)
- Benefit Administrator - The Ohio State University
- FSA Online
- Full listing of eligible and ineligible health care expenses. (This link takes you to a secure sign-in page. You will need your OSU name.# and password to sign-in. Then click on the link to the full listing of eligible and ineligible health care expenses.)
- IRS publication 503, a full listing of qualified dependent care expenses.
- Extended Plan Year FAQ, reimbursement information and example (.pdf)
- FSA Dependent Care Request for Reimbursement (.pdf)
- FSA Health Care Request for Reimbursement (.pdf)
- FSA Worksheets to help you calculate your expenses (.pdf)
- Flexible Spending Accounts - Plan Details (.pdf)
- Effective Date - Flexible Spending Accounts (.pdf)
- Termination of Enrollment - Flexible Spending Accounts (.pdf)
Flexible Spending Account FAQs are available here.
If you are unsure whether or not you are eligible for this benefit, go to Benefit Eligibility.
