When I was booking a trip to New Jersey this morning, I realized since the beginning of August I have earned over $30 toward my Health Savings Account through a program called My HSA Rewards, just booking my travel. If you follow this blog, you know that I am an advocate of that program which helps me put more money into my Health Savings Account by shopping for the normal things I purchase every day.
Basically I log in to the My HSA Rewards website, go to the shopping tab, and in the case of my New Jersey trip, click on the link to Priceline and book my trip. The folks at My HSA Rewards give me 2% for Priceline purchases which goes into my My HSA Rewards account. After I earn $50 into my account I can then transfer it into my Health Savings Account.
But here’s why I am babbling on about this. Just in the past few weeks, My HSA Rewards has added a lot of new ways to earn more HSA deposits. And today as I was booking my travel, I counted up the ways to earn in just the travel category, and it added up to 38 different ways. They are affiliated with a lot of the online travel sites including Priceline, Expedia, Orbitz and others; airlines like Delta, United and Virgin; Hotels , rental cars and luggage, you name it. So now there are even more ways for me to earn when I book my travel. And that’s on top of the hundreds of other ways to shop and earn. The amount of the awards vary by merchant with some %’s back even in the double digits
Excluding whatever I earned today from my Priceline purchase and another purchase I made from Overstock.com, to date I have managed to earn over $70 which ultimately will land in my health savings account. I like that. That’s $70 that won’t pinch my pocket when I need to use it for my family’s health care.
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