{"id":5647,"date":"2011-07-22T13:37:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T17:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=5647"},"modified":"2011-07-22T13:37:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T17:37:20","slug":"question-of-the-week-what-are-the-tests-for-reimbursement-of-expenses-by-a-dependent-care-fsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2011\/07\/question-of-the-week-what-are-the-tests-for-reimbursement-of-expenses-by-a-dependent-care-fsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week: What Are the Tests for Reimbursement of Expenses by a Dependent Care FSA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignright size-medium wp-image-5649\" style=\"width:300px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110722.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110722-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"What Are the Tests for Reimbursement of Expenses by a Dependent Care FSA?\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>What Are the Tests for Reimbursement of Expenses by a Dependent Care FSA?<\/div>\r\n<\/div>This week\u2019s question comes from Brent, an HR Director. I read about employees being reimbursed through a dependent care flexible spending arrangement (FSA) for summer <a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2011\/07\/question-of-the-week-can-camp-costs-be-reimbursed-under-a-dependent-care-fsa\/\" target=\"_blank\">camp costs<\/a> and need more information. What are the tests for reimbursement of expenses by a dependent care FSA? Answer: Plans may have different forms that must be completed to receive reimbursement, but the expenses themselves must be qualifying expenses to be eligible for reimbursement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Test for Qualifying Expenses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To be eligible for reimbursement under a dependent care FSA, an employee must meet all of the following tests:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Qualifying Person: The care must be for one or more qualifying persons.<\/li>\n<li>Earned Income: The employee (and spouse, if filing jointly) generally must have earned income during the year.<\/li>\n<li>Work-Related Expense: The employee must pay child and dependent care expenses so that the employee (and spouse, if filing jointly) can work or look for work.<\/li>\n<li>Care Provider: The employee must make payments to someone the employee (and spouse, if filing jointly) cannot claim as a dependent. If paid to a child of the employee, the child must also be age 19 or older by the end of the year. Payments cannot be made to:\n<ul>\n<li>The employee\u2019s spouse, or<\/li>\n<li>The parent of the employee\u2019s qualifying person if the qualifying person is the employee\u2019s child and under age 13.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Filing Status: The employee\u2019s filing status must be single, head of household, qualifying widow or widower with dependent child, or married filing jointly. Married employees must generally file a joint return.<\/li>\n<li>Provider Identification: The employee must identify the care provider on the employee\u2019s income tax return.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Contact Vision Payroll Today<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contact <a href=\"mailto:info@visionpayroll.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Payroll<\/a> for further information on the tests for reimbursement of expenses by a dependent care FSA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Are the Tests for Reimbursement of Expenses by a Dependent Care FSA? This week\u2019s question comes from Brent, an HR Director. I read about employees being reimbursed through a dependent care flexible spending arrangement (FSA) for summer camp costs and need more information. What are the tests for reimbursement of expenses by a dependent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[728,943,374,375,44,1569],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5651,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647\/revisions\/5651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}