diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 3b5122e0f..b16816f82 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Suggests:
     broom (>= 1.0.6),
     car (>= 3.0-13),
     dplyr (>= 1.0.5),
-    flextable (>= 0.8.4),
+    flextable (>= 0.9.5),
     knitr (>= 1.42),
     officer (>= 0.5.0),
     r2rtf (>= 0.3.2),