Reliant offers a Cafeteria Plan Benefit for our missionaries. What is a Cafeteria Plan? These are benefits that are paid from your paycheck but are not taxed. It is similar to how you select the food items you want to eat when you go to a cafeteria. Reliant’s Cafeteria Plan allows employees to “select” certain benefits they would like to utilize. When you submit your annual Cafeteria Enrollment Form each year, you are authorizing Reliant to make the deduction(s) from their monthly paycheck. Each authorization for Cafeteria benefits is designed to last for the rest of the calendar year in which the Cafeteria Enrollment Form is submitted. Therefore these benefits must be renewed each year during Open Enrollment. Failure to re-enroll during Open Enrollment means you will lose the opportunity to utilize the benefit for that year. |
Again, these benefits are tax free (meaning that neither FICA taxes, nor FITA taxes are withheld)! Cafeteria Plan offering will contain the following three benefits:
Along with your enrollment in either the HS 1500, 3000 or 5000 (HSA), you wish to make a monthly Employee Contribution to your personal HSA bank account, (In addition to the Reliant Employer Contribution). If so, then you will need to also enroll in the Cafeteria Plan to sign up for your Employee Contributions. Reliant strongly urges you to consider making monthly tax-free Employee Contributions to fund your HSA bank account. See also Health Saver (HS) Plans.
Please understand that Employe Contributions are made to the Health Savings Account by Reliant.
Vision premiums are paid for by you, the employee, out of your monthly paycheck. See also Vision Insurance.
For a description of the Child-Care Benefit, see Child-Care Benefit. If you desire to elect the Child-Care Benefit, you will need to also enroll in the cafeteria plan to sign up for your Child-Care Benefit Employee Contribution.
Reliant offers a Cafeteria Plan primarily for the tax free benefits it affords our employees. The contributions/payments for any of these three benefits are processed on a pre-tax basis so they will be taken from your monthly paycheck before taxes. This includes both Federal Income Taxes and FICA taxes, too! Thus, your tax savings could really add up!
With the Child-Care Benefit, employees are able to submit child-care expenses for reimbursement using the tax-free employee contributions set aside from their monthly paychecks. This enables you to pay for your child-care expenses tax-free!
A "Cafeteria Plan" is a concept that is made possible by IRS regulations. They allow certain deductions to be made in pre-tax manner. Please be aware that the IRS also sets maximums allowed benefits. Also, these benefits may need to be documented or reported with your annual tax return.
The IRS allows enrollment of Cafeteria Options until November 15th each year. Please follow instructions for submission if this date is later than Relaint's normal Open Enrollment Season.
All missionaries enrolling in the HS 5000 (HSA), HS 3000 (HSA), HS 1500 (HSA) or EyeMed Vision Insurance plan need to review the section below regarding the cafeteria plan. You can submit your cafeteria plan options at Cafeteria Plan Enrollment Form throughout the year. A special Open Enrollment Form will be available during Open Enrollment.
| All employees currently enrolled in the Cafeteria Plan need to submit a new Cafeteria Plan Enrollment Form EVERY YEAR. Please submit your form by the open enrollment deadline each year. |
The payment for any benefit chosen in the Cafeteria Plan will be deducted each month from your paycheck.
You will see these payments are in the “pre-tax” category on your monthly pay stub.
Neither Federal Income Tax nor FICA Tax are deducted on your Cafeteria Plan benefit that you choose.
It also means NO employer FICA matching portion comes out of the MTD account you’re responsible for.
The benefits offered on the Cafeteria Plan have to be elected by you each year. They DO NOT automatically roll over into the next year. You must submit a NEW Cafeteria Form EVERY YEAR.
So, even if you are planning to continue your participation in these benefits in the same manner as the previous year, a new selection must be made EACH YEAR during Open Enrollment (by November 15th).
Each Selection will last for the entire year.
The contributions selected for Vision, Employee HSA Contributions and Child Care Benefit will be applied to paychecks from January to December, or the entire year. Partial year contributions are not allowed.
Changes to selections are only allowed mid-year if there is a qualifying event experienced by those utilizing the benefit. Qualifying events are things like births, marriages, changes in eligibility, etc.
To take advantage of Reliant's Cafeteria Plan, you can choose ANY one of the three options. You do not need to be enrolled in all three.
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