Contributions stop after your final earnings statement. You can continue to submit claims for eligible expenses incurred prior to your termination date, provided the expenses were incurred while you were participating in the Health Care Flexible Spending Account. (Expenses incurred before you’re enrolled or after contributions cease aren’t eligible, and expenses incurred in a previous or future year can only be reimbursed from that year’s account.) You also have the option to extend coverage for the remainder of the calendar year by making after-tax contributions under COBRA. Keep in mind, continuing your contributions is not required unless you want to extend coverage, even if you have a negative balance.
All claims for reimbursement must be submitted no later than April 30 of the following year in which the expense was incurred. Keep in mind that any year-end carryover option does not apply after you leave HPE.
To submit claims for expenses incurred after you leave (but within the same calendar year you leave), you can choose to continue coverage on an after-tax basis. Shortly after you leave, you’ll receive information about continuing coverage under COBRA. If you don’t receive this information within two weeks after you leave, please call the HPE Benefits Center. Please note that if you also have a balance in the HPE Retirement Medical Savings Account (RMSA), you can only submit expenses from after you leave to either your RMSA or your Health Care Flexible Spending Account. You can’t submit the same expenses to both accounts.