Thread regarding Wells Fargo & Co. layoffs

Missed benefits deadline, whoops FSA

I'm lucky they default back into the plan from last year, but I simultaneously feel like a space cadet and am annoyed there wasn't more communication on it.
C'est la vie

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Post ID: @OP+188E1d6Z

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Call HR... they are really nice and they will help you with your FSA. It happens to the best of us. Some of us are busy staying up 3 days in a row to get stuff out and completed on schedule... SO FSA plans and stuff like that are often after thought. I think of that perhaps as BLIND DEDICATION...

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Post ID: @4hwv+188E1d6Z

More communication? There were multiple emails, splashes on Teamworks, probably a reminder from your manager, etc. Not to mention, this happens every year. But hey, it's management's fault were in this mess...

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Post ID: @3rza+188E1d6Z

If you didn’t go in and make any choices the deadline has been extended to year end. You just can’t do it online - you need to call into HR. It’s due to COVID and is available to anyone who didn’t go in before the original deadline.

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Post ID: @3iid+188E1d6Z

“and am annoyed there wasn't more communication on it”

OMG

OP you deserve to be laid off. Way too entitled.

How about taking responsibility for once in your life...

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Post ID: @2ibi+188E1d6Z

FSA does NOT default back to what you had last year, you have to opt in to it every year.

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Post ID: @2swq+188E1d6Z

Meh, you can use it on Amazon. I do because I will never use all of it before they expire

I have even ordered pizza with it

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Post ID: @1whp+188E1d6Z

More communication? Sh–, I was annoyed by too much communication.

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Post ID: @1tbg+188E1d6Z

Buy enough optifree solutions from different stores using FSA and then return (after claiming your FSA

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Post ID: @1oob+188E1d6Z

Well hate to say it but you had plenty of time for something that important. No one to blame but yourself. Good it falls back to what you had.

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Post ID: @1meb+188E1d6Z

You should have remonth. a letter in the mail with a reminder to use remaining FSA. I got my letter within the past month.

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Post ID: @udu+188E1d6Z

Don't panic. You have until March (15th? 16th?) to USE the 2020 FSA dollars and until April (15th? 16th?) to SUBMIT invoices (via receipts, etc).

Given the pandemic, I think the 2020 FSA dollars should be able to be used beyond March 2021, since we could not (still cannot in some regions) go to dentist, medical dr's, etc.

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