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stevebaum
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can HSA distributions be used for medical insurance premiums at age 63?

 
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MinhT1
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can HSA distributions be used for medical insurance premiums at age 63?

It depends.

 

HSA distributions can be used to pay for certain medical insurance premiums such as Cobra coverage premiums, Medicare premiums, premiums while receiving federal or state unemployment and long-term care coverage.

 

They cannot be used to pay for premiums for your employer-sponsored health plan or ACA Marketplace plans.

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dmertz
Level 15

can HSA distributions be used for medical insurance premiums at age 63?

Not Medicare premiums at age 63.  You must be age 65 or over for Medicare premiums to be qualified medical expenses payable with an HSA distribution.  (Of course most people who are paying Medicare premiums are age 65 or over.)

 

From IRS Pub 969:

 

Insurance premiums. You may not use HSA funds to pay for insurance, except for the following.
1. Long-term care insurance.
2. Health care continuation coverage (such as coverage under COBRA).
3. Health care coverage while receiving unemployment compensation under federal or state law.
4. Medicare and other health care coverage if you were 65 or older (other than premiums for a Medicare supplemental policy, such as Medigap).

 

The premiums for long-term care insurance (item (1)) that you can treat as qualified medical expenses are subject to limits based on age and are adjusted annually. See Limit on long-term care premiums you can deduct in the Instructions for Schedule A (Form 1040).


Items (2) and (3) can be for your spouse or a dependent meeting the requirement for that type of coverage. For item (4), if you, the account beneficiary, aren’t 65 or older, Medicare premiums for coverage of your spouse or a dependent (who is 65 or older) aren’t generally qualified medical expenses.

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