Good morning and Happy New Year everyone! For those of you that offer a high deductible health plan and offer an HSA contribution or match incentive, when do you deposit the employer contribution/match e.g., annually, quarterly, per pay? We currently deposit the full employer match into the employee's account in January so employees have those funds to use throughout the year (as an incentive to join the HDHP rather than the County's PPO plan). However, there has been "grumblings" that employees' take the employer match and run before actually contributing their employee portion of the match (which is deducted each pay period). For example, if an employee resigns in February , they haven't made their required employee match. While our records show that this has happened on rare occasions, the suggestion on the table is to be pro-active and to ensure that exposure is limited by spreading the employer deposit out over the course of the year - semi-annually, quarterly, or even monthly. Makes sense, but wanted to check with you all on your process. All comments are welcome. Thank you, Nancy Nancy A. Ostrander, MLIS, CLRP, SPHR, SHRM-SCP Director, Human Resources Board of Erie County Commissioners 2900 Columbus Ave., Sandusky, OH 44870 Ph: (419) 627-7662 Fax: (419) 627-7599 Erie County Department of Human Resources * Personnel Administration * Risk Management * Workers' Compensation * Benefits Administration * Wellness * CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted (including any attachments) is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or Protected Health Information (PHI) which is personal information about an individual's health care. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, distribution or transmission of the PHI without the individual's consent is strictly prohibited and may subject you to penalties under federal and state law. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy this message and all attachments.