CMS’s Brian Kelly answers your questions about the Work Opportunity Tax Credit. Today’s WOTC Wednesday question: Is the WOTC Summer Youth Category Still Available? CMS Responds: Is the WOTC Summer Youth Category Still Available? Actually it is. It got reinstated back in 2019. If you’re hiring folks that are in a HUD-related area that are[…]
CMS’s Brian Kelly answers your questions about the Work Opportunity Tax Credit. Today’s WOTC Wednesday question: Can You Do the WOTC Application on a Cell Phone? CMS Responds: Can You Do the WOTC Application on a Cell Phone? Well as technology advances, we advance along with it at CMS. Actually we have a web app[…]
CMS’s Brian Kelly answers your questions about the Work Opportunity Tax Credit. Today’s WOTC Wednesday question: What Is a Conditional Certification for WOTC? CMS Responds: What Is a “Conditional Certification” for WOTC? Well the conditional certification falls under the Ticket to Work where folks go in and go through retraining to get back into the[…]
CMS’s Brian Kelly answers your questions about the Work Opportunity Tax Credit. Today’s WOTC Wednesday question: How do I Explain Why We Are Asking If the Employee Has Received SNAP/Food Stamps? CMS Responds: Sometimes the employer or the new hire asks the question “why are you asking if I’m on SNAP?” Well, the reason is[…]
CMS’s Brian Kelly answers your questions about the Work Opportunity Tax Credit. Today’s WOTC Wednesday question: Can I Still Get a WOTC Tax Credit if my Employee Only Worked for Two Weeks? CMS Responds: Can I still get tax credits if my employee only works two weeks? It doesn’t really matter how many weeks somebody[…]
CMS’s Brian Kelly answers your questions about the Work Opportunity Tax Credit. Today’s WOTC Wednesday question: Are Salaried/Exempt Employees Eligible for WOTC? CMS Responds: One of the questions we get is “Are Salaried/Exempt Employees Eligible for the WOTC program?” The answer is absolutely yes! So it doesn’t matter if they’re exempt or non-exempt, if they[…]
CMS’s Brian Kelly answers your questions about the Work Opportunity Tax Credit. Today’s WOTC Wednesday question: Can an employer make the WOTC forms required? CMS Responds: Is the WOTC forms Required? They’re not a required document. It is a voluntary program that new hires would participate in. We can certainly make that a lot[…]
CMS’s Brian Kelly answers your questions about the Work Opportunity Tax Credit. Today’s WOTC Wednesday question: How Are The WOTC Tax Credits Calculated? CMS Responds: Big question is “We get these WOTC Tax Credits, how are they calculated?” There’s actually two benchmarks, the first one is the employee has to work a minimum of 120[…]
CMS’s Brian Kelly answers your questions about the Work Opportunity Tax Credit. Today’s WOTC Wednesday question: Is WOTC Applicable to Seasonal Employees? CMS Responds: Is WOTC Applicable to Seasonal Employees? Well one of the categories under the targeted groups is Summer Youth program. So if we’re hiring people between 16 and 18 years of age[…]
CMS’s Brian Kelly answers your questions about the Work Opportunity Tax Credit. Today’s WOTC Wednesday question: What are the Reasons WOTC Gets Denied? CMS Responds: Great question “What are the Reasons for denials of WOTC Certifications?” The biggest ones is that the employee worked for that employer before, or that they checked off a box[…]