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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Please
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>January
11, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>TO: Faculty and Staff<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>RE: Health Care Reimbursement Account<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>FR: Benefits Office<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p><strong><b><font size=4 face=Arial><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:
Arial'>Health Care Reimbursement Account Spending Cards: 2008 Information</span></font></b></strong><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><i><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>Cards are good for three years</span></font></i></b></strong><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>If
you are enrolled in the UC Health Care Reimbursement Account (HCRA) program and
use a SHPS spending account card, you should know that cards issued to you and
any family members can be used for three consecutive calendar years after
issuance -- provided that you are enrolled in HCRA each year. You must
re-enroll in HCRA each year during Open Enrollment to have an account in the
coming year.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Here
is what this means to you --<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>If you enrolled in HCRA in 2007 and received a card which you activated:</span></font></b></strong><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Assuming
you re-enrolled in HCRA for 2008, you may continue to use your card now and
during the rest of 2008 as long as you have funds in your account. Your new
2008 annual HCRA spending amount has been loaded onto the card you received
last year, and you do not need to reactivate it to use it. You will not receive
a new card this year.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><strong><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>If you enrolled in HCRA for the first time for calendar year 2008</span></font></b></strong><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>: YOU SHOULD
RECEIVE YOUR SPENDING ACCOUNT CARD BY JANUARY 20, 2008. Your card is ready for
use as soon as you activate it, as the instructions received with
your card explain. If you re-enroll in HCRA for 2009, you will continue to use
the same card in 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>For questions please call the Benefits Office at X24766.</span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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