{"id":16261,"date":"2020-06-17T10:55:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T14:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16261"},"modified":"2020-06-17T10:55:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T14:55:19","slug":"more-education-is-needed-on-how-to-maximize-your-health-savings-account-hsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16261","title":{"rendered":"More education is needed on how to maximize your health savings account (HSA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study found older employees are slightly more aware than younger employees of how much money they will need for health care in retirement.\u00a0 The paper published by Optum Bank and Empower Retirement found most people seem to have no idea how much health care\u00a0 will cost in retirement but are open to learning more from employers. \u00a0The study also found that the majority of consumers are saving or planning for retirement using multiple types of accounts, predominantly in 401(k) and traditional cash savings account but of the 47 percent who currently have or have had an HSA only 19 percent are using it to save for health care in retirement. Read article\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.plansponsor.com\/hsa-misconceptions-remain-stubbornly-common\/\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_63354325hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x464.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8394\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_63354325hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x464-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_63354325hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x464-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_m_63354325hsa-health-savings-account-medical-700x464.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study found older employees are slightly more aware than younger employees of how much money they will need<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16262,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16261\/revisions\/16262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}