Not every employer offers qualified transportation fringes — but enough do that the annual limit change still belongs in the benefits newsletter.
For 2026, the monthly exclusion for qualified parking and for transit/commuter highway vehicle benefits is $340 (each category). That’s up from $325 in 2025.
Why these accounts feel different from FSAs
- Elections can often change monthly
- Unused amounts generally don’t work like health FSA carryovers
- The monthly cap is easy to breach if parking and transit are misunderstood as one combined bucket (they’re separate $340 limits)
Admin notes
If you run commuter benefits through the same TPA portal as FSAs, label them clearly. Participants blur “pre-tax account” into one mental model and then wonder why parking money won’t pay for copays.
May is also when hybrid-work policies shift for the summer. Reminding employees they can dial elections up or down beats collecting forfeitures on unused transit credits nobody tracked.