The mass transit tax benefit used by thousands of federal employees will drop significantly in 2014, while the maximum parking benefit will increase by $5. Beginning on Jan. 1, 2014, commuters ...

Federal employees will see a dramatic decrease in their mass transit benefits beginning Jan. 1, bringing the subsidy down to pre-2009 levels. With the House now on recess until 2014, time has run ...

Transit users could be faced with paying more to commute on rail, on buses and in van pools next year if Congress doesn't extend pretax benefits by the end of this month. Commuters can set aside ...

Starting on Jan. 1, the monthly amount that commuters can set aside before taxes to spend on mass transit is set to drop from $245 to $130. (Matt McClain/For The Washington Post) By Jia Lynn Yang ...

The new law boosted the mass transit benefit to be in line with the parking benefit, and both were also adjusted for inflation Now you can set aside $245 per month for public transportation, ...

Transit advocates are pushing anew for an extension of federal transit benefits now that the congressional supercommittee convened to reduce the deficit has called it quits. But they are running ...

Still, the transit benefit is used by only a small fraction of the nation’s overall work force — estimated at 2 percent in a 2014 report that Mr. Dutzik helped write — because many employers ...