Health and Wellness Account Resources
Guides, articles, how-to’s, and more covering HSAs, FSAs, HRAs, Lifestyle Spending and Medical Travel Accounts, and general financial health and wellness.
Guides
Featured Content
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Lively's HSA Snapshot
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HSAs Without the Headaches
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Invest in your employees during open enrollment and beyond
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Lively’s Employee Benefits Pulse Check
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Benefits and the Great Resignation
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Lively’s 2021 HSA Spend Report
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HSA Account Holder Insights
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Open Enrollment Survival Guide
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2021 Wellness & Wealth Report
eBook
How to Position the HDHP/HSA for Employers
eBook
The Health Insurance and HSA Terms Every Employee Should Know
Infographic
Why Telehealth is a Crucial Benefit Offering
Guide
Telehealth: A Critical Component of Your Benefits Offering
Demo
Meet Lively: The Modern HSA
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Unlocking the Power of Your HSA
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Best Ways Benefits Brokers Can Talk About HSAs During Open Enrollment
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Benefits of Employer HSA Contribution Matching
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The Employee Benefits that Matter Most Right Now According to HR Leaders
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Resources for Open Enrollment Success
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What Financial and Investment Advisors Need to Know About HSAs
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How to Balance Employee Benefit and HR Administration Needs
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How Can an HSA Help Bridge the Retirement Gap?
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What HR Leaders Should Look for in an HSA Provider
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What Financial Institutions Should Look For in an HSA Partnership
Recent Articles
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How Benefits Brokers Can Effectively Discuss HSAs During Open Enrollment
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Ways Health Savings Account Matching Benefits Employers
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Understand the Employee Benefits That Make the Most Impact
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Resources for a Successful Open Enrollment
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What Financial and Investment Advisors Need to Know About HSAs
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Building a Sustainable People-First Benefits Package: Balancing Employee Benefits and Admin Lift
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How HSAs can Help Americans Bridge the $7 Trillion Retirement Savings Gap
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What to Look for in an HSA Provider—and Why You Should Switch
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What Financial Institutions Should Look For in an HSA Partnership
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Ways You Can Implement a Successful High Deductible Health Plan Strategy
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How the Fastest-Growing HSA Provider Gets Their Employees to Adopt HSAs
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Why HSAs are a Powerful Tool for Financial Institutions to Gain and Retain Commercial Customers
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What Brought Our VP of People to Lively
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Did all of your eligible employees open their Health Savings Accounts? Here’s how to improve participation.
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Designing an LSA Program: Best Practices for Employers
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Empowering Your Workforce with a Lifestyle Spending Account
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Why are MTAs so Popular? The Benefits of Medical Travel Accounts
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Lively’s HSA Snapshot Report Highlights What You Need to Know About HSAs and Your Benefits Mix
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The Advantages of Bundling Your Employees’ Benefits
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Should Employers Consider Adding Lifestyle Spending Accounts as an Employee Benefit?
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Why You Need a Mid-year Financial and Mental Wellness Check-Up
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Does COBRA Have Requirements for Employers?
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What Can I Use My LSA For?
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Lively’s Platform Now Has Over $1 Billion in HSA Assets: What That Means for Us
Calculators
Easily compare health plans, determine yearly HSA contribution amounts, and forecast HSA savings.
Calculators
Easily compare health plans, determine yearly HSA contribution amounts, and forecast HSA savings.
Videos
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[Webinar] Drive Employee Retention with Tax-Deductible Benefits
60 Minutes
[Webinar] Shrinking Attention Spans, Better Benefits: Navigating 2022 Open Enrollment
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[Webinar] HSAs and Financial Wellness: 5 Ways to Boost Employee Resiliency During the Pandemic
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[Webinar] HSA Spending & COVID-19: How to Adapt Benefits to Healthcare Trends
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The Value of a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP)
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Pairing an HSA with your HDHP
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How to Choose a Healthcare Plan
60 Minutes
[Webinar] How COVID-19 Has Transformed HSAs and Why They Enhance Today’s Benefit Packages
60 Minutes
[Webinar] How to Manage Increasing Healthcare Costs With Consumer-Driven Health Plans
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Lively Employee Dashboard Overview
1 Minute
Lively Mobile App Overview
2 Minutes
HSA Investments Overview
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Employer HSA Signup
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HSA Reimbursements
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HSA Transfers
3 Minutes
Lively Employee Dashboard Overview
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Lively Mobile App Overview
2 Minutes
HSA Investments Overview
Frequently Asked Questions
- How much does Lively cost?
LIvely’s standard pricing is $2.95 per enrolled employee per month, with a monthly minimum fee of $50. This may vary depending on the number of enrolled employees or preferred pricing. Contact sales@livelyme.com to learn more.
Lively is free for individuals and families with no required monthly fees.
- What investment options are available for employees?
Lively offers two industry-leading solutions to help employees build toward their financial goals, both with the capability to start investing right away: Schwab Health Savings Brokerage Account by Charles Schwab and HSA Guided Portfolio by Devenir.
Whether they prefer to be more hands-on or receive personalized guidance, we have a solution that’s right for them. Learn more about Lively’s integrated HSA investment solutions here.
- Can an employer contribute different amounts to different employees?
Employer contributions to eligible employees’ HSAs must be treated as comparable. Comparable contributions must be made to all eligible employees enrolled in a qualifying HDHP, are in the same category of employment (full-time, part-time, former employees, and collectively bargained), same category of coverage (self, self +1, self +2, self +3). In order for it to be considered comparable, an employer must contribute the same dollar amount or percentage amount to everyone in that category. Additionally, the higher coverage categories can’t have a lower contribution amount compared to the lower coverage (self +1 has to be greater than self).
- Are employer contributions tax-deductible?
For sole proprietors, partnerships, and S-corporations, contributions to a partner’s HSA will be treated as a distribution to the partner and included in the partner’s income and may be deductible by the partner but not by the business. For larger corporations (e.g., C-corps), employer contributions are treated as employer provided coverage for medical expenses under an accident or health plan and therefore tax-deductible.
- What happens if an employee leaves the company?
Employees own their HSA and continue to do so if they leave your company or the health plan.
Once Lively receives the termination information, we convert the HSA from an employee account to an individual account and remove the employee’s association to your company. We will send them communications around the ongoing benefits of their Lively HSA and inform them the account is fee-free for them moving forward.
Schwab Health Savings Brokerage Accounts are offered through Charles Schwab & Co., Inc (Member SIPC), the registered broker/dealer, which also provides other brokerage and custody services to its customers. See the Charles Schwab Pricing Guide for Health Savings Accounts for full fee and commission schedules.