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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">January 12, 2023</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Department Benefit Representatives</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Central HR Benefits Office on behalf of UC Office of the President</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">2023 Flexible Spending Accounts Summary Plan Descriptions
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<p class="xdefault"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Please find links below to the updated Flexible Spending Account Summary Plan Descriptions (SPDs) for the 2023 plan year for faculty, staff, and postdoctoral
scholars. The booklets outline new plan rules for the 2023 plan year. All plan changes are effective January 1, 2023. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xdefault"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">The Dependent Care and Health Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) for Postdoctoral Scholars are new this year. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xdefault"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Please note that each SPD has a section titled “Midyear Changes Allowed” which describe the FSA options allowed due to mid-year changes in status, such as when
an employee is terminated then rehired, or transfers from the postdoc benefit program to the faculty/staff benefit program. The mid-year plan changes allowed appear in each of the SPDs on the booklet pages noted below:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">· </span><a href="https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/forms/pdf/hfsa.pdf"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Health FSA Summary Plan Description
</span><span class="file-type"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">PDF</span></span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> (see pages 6-7)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">· </span><a href="https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/forms/pdf/depcare-fsa.pdf"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">DepCare FSA Summary Plan Description
</span><span class="file-type"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">PDF</span></span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> (see pages 9-11)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">· </span><a href="https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/forms/pdf/depcare-fsa-postdoc.pdf"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">DepCare FSA Summary Plan Description for Postdoctoral
Scholars </span><span class="file-type"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">PDF</span></span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> (see pages 7-8)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><a href="https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/forms/pdf/health-care-fsa-postdoc.pdf"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Health Care FSA Summary Plan Description for Postdoctoral Scholars
</span><span class="file-type"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">PDF</span></span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> (see pages 9-11)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xdefault"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">The four SPDs may also be found on UCnet at this link (</span><a href="https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/compensation-and-benefits/other-benefits/flexible-spending-accounts/depcare-fsa.html"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/compensation-and-benefits/other-benefits/flexible-spending-accounts/depcare-fsa.html</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">).
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<p class="xdefault"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">The Postdoctoral Scholars SPDs have been posted on the Gallagher website (</span><a href="https://c2mb.ajg.com/uc/home/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://c2mb.ajg.com/uc/home/</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">WEX will also upload the updated SPDs to the UC FSA microsite (</span><a href="https://uc-fsa.com/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://uc-fsa.com/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">).</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F4E79"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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