{"id":2372,"date":"2021-09-02T11:06:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T15:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2021-09-02T11:06:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T15:06:17","slug":"2021-dependent-care-advantage-account-dcaa-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/?p=2372","title":{"rendered":"2021 Dependent Care Advantage Account (DCAA) Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Colleagues,<\/p>\n<p>We have received word from the Governor\u2019s Office of Employee Relations that the State has again modified the NYS Dependent Care Advantage Account to expand DCAA benefits and eligibility as permitted under recent federal law changes included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 and the American Rescue Act of 2021.\u00a0 These are modifications that UUP and other state employee unions pressed for in meetings with GOER representatives and we are pleased that the State has agreed to implement them. \u00a0The new changes are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>The maximum annual contribution levels have been increased\u00a0from $2,500 to $5,250 for single or married filing separately and from $5,000 to $10,500 for married filing jointly or head of household, and,<\/li>\n<li>Employees are now able to change their DCAA election amount mid-year without a qualifying change in status event reason. \u00a0This will allow employees to enroll, change, re-start, or terminate a DCAAccount mid-year throughout 2021. Changes will not be retroactive; they will be applied to the next available payroll processing date following the change in enrollment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Employees who are currently enrolled in DCAA have already been notified of these changes directly by WageWorks\/Health Equity. \u00a0A notice is also posted on the GOER webpage\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/goer.ny.gov\/fsa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">Flex Spending Account | Governor&#8217;s Office of Employee Relations (ny.gov)<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Employees who are interested may also email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:fsa@goer.ny.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">fsa@goer.ny.gov<\/a>\u00a0or call WageWorks\/Health Equity at\u00a0<a href=\"tel:1-800-358-7202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\">1-800-358-7202<\/a>\u00a0with any questions on the DCAA or these new changes.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Please share this news generally with your members. \u00a0Members who are not currently enrolled in DCAA, and did not receive a notice from Wage Works, may be interested in enrolling in DCAA for the balance of the year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In Solidarity,<br \/>\nFred<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Colleagues, We have received word from the Governor\u2019s Office of Employee Relations that the State has again modified the NYS Dependent Care Advantage Account to expand DCAA benefits and eligibility as permitted under recent federal law changes included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 and the American Rescue Act of 2021.\u00a0 These are modifications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2373,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions\/2373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}