Medcom recently hosted a webinar discussing the changes the Pandemic made to our Flexible Spending Accounts and Dependent Care. Things are increasingly confusing, so we thought we would take a moment to lay out the changes and considerations moving forward. 

In 2020, the IRS released Notices 2020-29 and 33. In these notices, the IRS stated they will allow unused amounts from FSAs to carryon over through December 31, 2020, for non-calendar year plans. This means that even if the calendar year plan ended in June 2020, the funds remaining in the participant's FSA were still available through...

A new year means new resolutions! Even for us, here at Medcom. Our sustainability efforts have been building over the years, but this is the year we are really extending our efforts!

I think we can all agree it was pretty hard this past year to keep our impact sustainable and low-waste. Because of COVID-19, a lot of businesses reverted to single-use plastics. It quickly became unsafe to bring your own reusable products to coffee shops and grocery stores. We all took these discouraging, but very necessary steps to keep ourselves, and others, safe. For this reason...

We are at that inevitable time of year again where we all set goals for ourselves, our families, our businesses to become better, more healthy, or more profitable. I struggle each year with setting achievable personal goals without allowing the self-doubt to creep into the back of my mind and defeat me before I even start. It goes about the same way for my professional goals as well. The struggle is real and it is everywhere. The bottom line though is that we'd all like to make improvements personally and professionally, no matter the time of year. Many...

It is no surprise that with everything happening in 2020, we would round out the year with more complicated legislation about employee benefits. We are thankful for the folks in Washington who worked diligently to bring the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, to the table. It will extend many of the conditions and modifications we were given in 2020 regarding our FSA and Dependent Care accounts. Now, more than ever, it seems, we Americans need help, and we are relieved that our Congress and President passed the legislation early this week.

Earlier this week, Medcom's Senior Legal Counsel, Michelle Barki,...