In Paycheck, allow selecting checking account for Flex Spending deduction

jdevanoff

Flex Spending is one of the options in the Pre-tax deductions section of the paycheck dialog. Since it is in the pre-tax section, this will reduce the W-2 wages, I assume.

I have my Health Savings Account set up, and it is a checking account, which makes sense for the transactions. I can download transactions from the provider into Quicken.

However, Quicken will now allow me to select that account for the Flex Spending deduction.

My current workaround is to create an account that Quicken will "like" for the Flex Spending account, and then create a recurring transfer from that account to the actual account. This is a pain.

I could configure the account under bank accounts. This will (as mentioned above) affect the W-2 gross wages.

However, it would be nice if I could just select the account directly from the line for the Flex Spending deduction.