Money tip: Safeway makes it easier to track your health care costs

Here's a great money tip for a Friday: Safeway (Which also operates Vons, Randalls, Tom Thumb, Genuardi's and Carrs supermarkets) conveniently prints their customer's grocery receipts with special markings to indicate items that may qualify for Health Care Flex Spending Account reimbursement.

You can find a complete list of the medical and health care costs that qualify online at FSAFEDS.com or on your plan's own website, but it is difficult to remember the eccentricities of these lists. For example: that Metamucil qualifies for reimbursement but Ensure doesn't.

Instead of referencing your Flex Account's guide, you can simply look for the "#" mark next to health care purchases that may qualify on your Safeway receipt. Then, just fax in the receipt to your Flex Plan company and you'll be reimbursed with pre-tax dollars.