Marketplace: Flexible spending accounts

Friday, June 9, 2006

Flexible spending accounts

Once a year, workers can contribute money into a flexible spending account to be used for a variety of family and health care costs. So how much should you put aside? Kai speaks to Paul Fronstin of the Employee Benefits Research Institute.

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