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The benefit of a Flexible Spending Account is obvious: Using pre-tax dollars to pay for health or child care expenses can save you a fortune. The risk is that if you don't spend the cash, you lose it. But you may have more time to do that than you thought.

You practically have to be an accountant to manage your family's health care these days. The good news is, some lawmakers seem to recognize this and are working toward changes to one program that should be well received by employers, employees and doctors alike.

On New Year's Day, you had plans -- promises to get your finances in order in 2011. Today, check your financial pulse: Where do all those good intentions stand? Ask yourself tough questions then take action. The experts tell you where to begin.

It's a guarantee in our health-care system: You may get better or you may not, but what you will get either way is paperwork: insurance claims, bills, receipts, and reams of forms that stand between you and the money you're owed. Recently, a new industry has sprung up to help you conquer the paper and recover your cash.

March 15 is just six days away, and, for many, that's the last day they'll be able to spend down their 2010 flexible spending account (FSA) -- pre-tax dollars set aside for medical or dependent care expenses. If you're one of those who want to use it and not lose it, here are seven tips on how to...

When it comes to flexible spending accounts (FSAs), you use it or lose it. That's meant the 30 million Americans who have paid into their FSAs have left about $450 million of tax-free money unclaimed by the time the deadline rolls around, according to Jeremy Miller, founder and president of...

Use it or lose it -- that's the mantra of flexible spending accounts (FSAs). It sounds scary, but these accounts, funded by your pre-tax wages, are great ways to save on child care or medical expenses. So whether you're trying to use all the money you set aside this year or are planning for 2011,...

Cisco Systems and Westcon Group North America agreed to pay $48 million to settle charges they paid kickbacks and referral fees to win government business, and then recouped those costs and more by overcharging the government for their services.

Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs has been fined £20m ($31 million) by British financial authorities for failing to disclose it was under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission -- an inquest which ultimately led to July's blockbuster $550 million stateside fine.