own HSA for currently covered child

Mar 07, 2008 0 Replies

trying to wrap my head around this:


  1. currently I cover student with my company provided health plan which is a HDP and have an HSA
  2. am aware that any expenses now that I pay for are covered through the HSA, should I wish to reimburse myself (which I have not done)

the question is



if the student obtains insurance on their own and selects a HPD plan with their own HSA, what happens to the unreimbursed items in my HSA?



reason I ask is that I plan on never reimbursing myself from my HSA, am just collecting all receipts for payments and allow the HSA money to earn interest and investment income



thus, when I finally take my dirtnap, does my surviving family have to know anything about situation above or simply start paying themselves against the receipts in the shoebox?



am I making this too complicated as to my thinking it does not matter when student obtains health insurance because as long as I am able to carry on my insurance, then any expenses go into my shoebox and later the student will just build their own tower of receipts?


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