Gusto dependent-care FSA claim flow lacks clear instructions and OCR misses invoice fields
Employees submitting dependent-care claims in Gusto cannot tell how to enter the right details, and the invoice OCR feature pulls only partial data. The result is manual re-entry and ambiguity for time-sensitive reimbursements.
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