A Flexible Spending Account (FSA) is a separate benefit plan that allows you to direct a part of your pay, tax free, into a special account that you can use throughout the year to reimburse yourself for certain eligible out-of-pocket expenses.  In the Avenues FSA, you can deduct up to $7,500 per year for health care each year. 

An FSA is totally funded through payroll deduction.  Avenues provides no funds for this purpose.  Please remember that any amount designated during the calendar year must be used during the year or it will be forfeited.  Your total expenditure is limited to what you put in during the year. 

Currently, the only types of Flexible Spending Accounts in the Avenues plan includes health related out-of-pocket expenses.

To be eligible, employees must have completed 12 active months of employment with Avenues.