Jody Dietel

About the Author

Jody Dietel

Jody Dietel is chief compliance officer at WageWorks, Inc. and executive director of Save Flexible Spending Plans, an advocacy campaign to protect the accessibility and use of flexible spending accounts. Concurrently, she serves on the Board of Directors for the Special Interest Group for IIAS Standards (SIGIS), the industry group that determines standards for the use of Health Payment Cards at merchants without the need for documentation, and is a member of the board of directors for the Employers Council of Flexible Compensation and the HSA Council. A frequent speaker at industry functions, Jody is especially proud of being the only non-attorney to present at Employee Benefits Institute of America's conferences.

For more information visit, www.wageworks.com or www.savemyflexplan.org. To learn more about the proper use and advantages of tax-advantaged benefits, visit www.savesmartspendhealthy.org.  

• Consumer-directed benefits: The affordable in Affordable Care

  By Jody Dietel  |  May 15, 2013

  “Traditional” health care benefits vs. consumer-directed benefits—that is the question.

• HRAs fit well in the new health care model

  By Jody Dietel  |  March 19, 2013

  The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has introduced a lot of new regulations. These changes require new paths to be paved — especially surrounding the popular health reimbursement arrangements.

• Protecting pretax accounts in 2013

  By Jody Dietel  |  January 17, 2013

  With 2013 fully in swing, and New Year’s resolutions brought to the test, it’s a great time to think about priorities. For lawmakers, there’s plenty of work to do to ensure pretax spending accounts remain a great tool for millions of Americans to stretch their paycheck into greater purchasing power....

• Fighting rising costs with FSAs

  By Jody Dietel  |  November 7, 2012

  FSAs offer employees who are frustrated with their out-of-pocket expenses a way to take control and keep costs down.

• The dos and don'ts of FSA open enrollment

  By Jody Dietel  |  October 8, 2012

  One tip that won’t be a miss for your employees—anyone who has routine and predictable expenses should consider signing up for pre-tax health care, dependent care and commuting accounts during the next open enrollment.

• What you may not know about your FSA

  By Jody Dietel  |  August 28, 2012

  With fall just around the corner, benefits managers are gearing up to educate employees about flexible spending accounts for the open enrollment period.

• IRS considers modifying FSA 'use it or lose it rule

  By Jody Dietel  |  July 30, 2012

  There’s a chance the FSA “use it or lose it” rule could be a thing of the past.

• New IRS guidelines offer good news for FSA users

  By Jody Dietel  |  June 1, 2012

  The "use-or-lose" rule is open for comments. That's good news for the millions of Americans who use tax-advantaged accounts to cut down expenses on health care as well as for benefits managers and administrators of tax-advantaged accounts.

• Summer savings in the FSA

  By Jody Dietel  |  May 14, 2012

  With summer rapidly approaching, it’s important for benefits managers to educate employees about the cost-saving tools available to them to decrease expenses on summer camps and other options for dependent care.

• Looking for a break on taxes? Consumer-directed benefits accounts can equal big savings

  By Jody Dietel  |  April 8, 2012

  With the tax day filing deadline looming on April 17, many Americans are looking for strategies to help save money and pay less in taxes. Benefits managers are well positioned to help them do both by educating more employees about consumer-directed benefit accounts, including flexible spending accounts (FSAs) and transit...