Health Spending Account
specific to St. Boniface Worksite 5
Information provided herein is specific to St. Boniface Nurses Worksite 5. Please contact the Worksite 5 office with any questions or concerns, or when an issue first arises.
Health Spending Account
(Article 3903) In order to be eligible for the HSA, a nurse must be enrolled in the Enhanced Extended Health Care Plan. The HSA is only available to top up the existing benefits provided in the HEBP Enhanced”Extended Health Benefit Plan and the HEBP Dental Plan.
The annual HSA benefit amounts currently are:
one time increase of an additional $500.00 for full-time nurses and $250.00 for part-time nurses
For the purpose of the HSA, a nurse is deemed to qualify for the full-time benefit if she/he has been paid for a minimum of 1,500 hours in the previous calendar year. Hours paid at overtime rates do not count in the annual determination of whether a nurse qualifies for the full-time benefit.
A year or the annual HSA benefit is defined as the calendar year – January 1st to December 31st.
Unutilized HSA monies are not carried over to the subsequent year.