http://smallbusiness.blogs.cnnmoney.cnn.com/2008/03/11/tax-incentives-for-hiring-disabled-workers/ Editors from FSB magazine answer your pressing small-business questions. Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:52:55 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://smallbusiness.blogs.cnnmoney.cnn.com/2008/03/11/tax-incentives-for-hiring-disabled-workers/#comment-1350 Kendra, New Orleans, Louisiana Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:23:58 +0000 http://askfsb.blogs.fsb.cnn.com/?p=223#comment-1350 For individuals with diabilities who have a "waiver", either Supports Waiver or the Now Waiver, the non- profit agency does not act as the employer unless it is a contract with the state through a type of employment development group. Usually in that instance it is a mobile crew contracted to perform duites at a state site. There is individual job support and retention where the non-profit provides job coaches to go with the disabled individual to the job site. The disabled individual is the employee of that company, not the non-profit and the company can certainly claim the WOTC. It is a very simple form, approximately 1 page, and the benefits in hiring an individual with a disability are tremendous. For individuals with diabilities who have a "waiver", either Supports Waiver or the Now Waiver, the non- profit agency does not act as the employer unless it is a contract with the state through a type of employment development group. Usually in that instance it is a mobile crew contracted to perform duites at a state site. There is individual job support and retention where the non-profit provides job coaches to go with the disabled individual to the job site. The disabled individual is the employee of that company, not the non-profit and the company can certainly claim the WOTC. It is a very simple form, approximately 1 page, and the benefits in hiring an individual with a disability are tremendous.

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