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Fulton County Council seeks legal answer on whether Medicare enrollment disqualifies HSA contributions
Summary
Council members and affected employees debated whether enrolling in Medicare prevents county workers from receiving Health Savings Account contributions; the council agreed to submit a narrowly focused legal question to a tax attorney and return with an opinion.
Council members and county employees spent the meeting’s opening hour debating whether county employees who enrolled in Medicare are ineligible for county Health Savings Account (HSA) contributions.
The council chair opened the item by saying the HSA question needed to be resolved after lengthy debate and asking whether anyone who had taken Medicare had rolled back enrollment. "IRS law says that if you take Medicare ... you cannot get the HSA," the chair said, summarizing the concern that Medicare entitlement may disqualify…
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