Flex Spending and Savings Rate

[rjbf65]

I can't get it through my head how to treat my Flex Spending Account in regards to calculating my Savings Rate.

I use it for child day care expenses to save on taxes.  The money is saved up from my paycheck and I get reimbursed when I turn it in.  Typically do that twice a year. 

So do I count the money as income when I take the reimbursement?   

[NextTime]

It is income

[seattlecyclone]

I treat it as income when I get the money in my paycheck, and an expense when I make the underlying expenditure. Getting the money back out of the FSA as a reimbursement is neutral, it's just a transfer between accounts.