Campaign provides resources, tips for proper use of pre-tax benefits

WageWorks Inc. is sponsoring a consumer education campaign which provides resources and tips on the advantages and proper uses of pre-tax benefits. Save Smart, Spend Healthy’s focus expands this year to include information on pre-tax dependent care and commuter benefits, in addition to health care flexible spending accounts.

Along with the changes there is also a Facebook-based sweepstakes to educate consumers on the opportunity to save money with pre-tax health care, dependent care and commuter benefits.   “When you find many households struggling financially and enrollment in pre-tax benefits is only around 20%, it is clear that more education is needed,” says WageWorks’ CEO Joe Jackson.  “What many may not realize is that pre-tax benefits are exclusively designed to save consumers money on their routine health care, dependent care and commuter expenses.”