CMS’s Brian Kelly answers your questions about the Work Opportunity Tax Credit. Today’s WOTC Wednesday question: Are We Eligible for Employees Who Receive SNAP Benefits While Working? CMS Responds: Are We (WOTC) Eligible for Employees Who Receive SNAP Benefits While Working or only if they go off? The answer is actually both, you can get[…]
CMS’s Brian Kelly answers your questions about the Work Opportunity Tax Credit. Today’s WOTC Wednesday question: When Is The Best Time To Give the WOTC Survey To The Applicant? CMS Responds: One of the questions we get is “When Is The Best Time To Give the WOTC Survey To The Applicant?” Actually, when they are[…]
CMS’s Brian Kelly answers your questions about the Work Opportunity Tax Credit. Today’s WOTC Wednesday question: Is it Worth it to do the Work Opportunity Tax Credit? CMS Responds: Is it Worth it for Employers to do the Work Opportunity Tax Credits? I look at it as absolutely! We know statistically over the last 20[…]
CMS’s Brian Kelly answers your questions about the Work Opportunity Tax Credit. Today’s WOTC Wednesday question: Is There a Best Practice to Making Sure Employees Participate in WOTC Screening? CMS Responds: Is There a “Best Practice” to Making Sure all Employees Participate? Well we can’t force people to fill out the WOTC forms, but we[…]
CMS’s Brian Kelly answers your questions about the Work Opportunity Tax Credit. Today’s WOTC Wednesday question: Can I Switch to an Online WOTC Process from Paper? CMS Responds: One of the WOTC questions we get is “Can I switch to an online form than using paper forms, our office wants to go paperless?” And the[…]
CMS’s Brian Kelly answers your questions about the Work Opportunity Tax Credit. Today’s WOTC Wednesday question: Is There Any Way to Still Qualify for WOTC If Employee Was Hired Over 28 Days Ago? CMS Responds: Is There Any Way to Still Qualify for WOTC If Employee Was Hired Over 28 Days Ago? Unfortunately no. You[…]
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[…]