FSA amount can't be negative?

Jan 19, 2008 1 Replies

On my paystub, my Flexible Spending Account shows, instead of a deduction from me to the account, a deduction from the account to me. Yes, that's bizarre and wrong and probably an error that HR will need to fix next week. But that's what it shows, and I cannot enter a negative number in the split for that, so my net pay is wrong.



How can I either force Quicken to accept a negative number, or somehow otherwise force it to show the amount that I was actually paid? I seriously doubt they'll fix this by "retracting" my pay and re-issuing it... I'm sure that, next pay period, there'll just be a different amount shown on my stub. But I need to fix this, or Quicken will never reconcile again.


Enter the seperate entry for the amount of the error and make the FSA entry on the paycheck be a zero. The sum of the two transactions will equal your net pay. You will not be able to automatch during reconciliation so manually clear the items.

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