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Good News - The Hiring Incentive Training Grant Program (HITG) Program has been reactivated through June 30th 2010!

HITG, part of the state-funded Workforce Training Fund, is open to all employers that pay into the fund and assists an employer to cover the cost of training when hiring a Massachusetts resident who, prior to being hired, had been unemployed for 1 year or longer.
Awards are made in the amount of a flat fee grant of $2,000 per individual up to a maximum annual total of $20,000 per employer. Employers can use an external training provider of their choice or they may use qualified employees of the company to conduct internal training of new hires.
Funding is limited and grants will be awarded on a first come-first served basis.
In order to access HITG funds, employers must submit an online application within 30 days following the individual’s date of hire.
The application may be accessed through the following link (copy and paste in your browser): http://web.detma.org/wtf/hitg/hp1.asp
For all HITG applications submitted through June 30, 2010, the planned training must be completed no later than December 31, 2010.

BUSINESS NEWS: New tax benefits to businesses hiring employees.
The new Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act of 2010 creates two new benefits for employers hiring and retaining workers previously unemployed or working part-time. Employers that hire unemployed workers between February 4, 2010 and December 31, 2010 may qualify for a tax incentive that effectively exempts them from the employer's 6.2% Social Security tax.

The two tax benefits are especially helpful to employers who are adding positions to their payrolls. New hires filling existing positions also qualify but only if the workers they are replacing left voluntarily or for cause. Family members and other relatives do not qualify.

In addition, the new law requires that the employer get a statement from each eligible new hire certifying that he or she was unemployed during the 60 days before beginning work or, alternatively, worked fewer than a total of 40 hours for someone else during the 60-day period.

New Form W-11, Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act Employee Affidavit, is now posted on IRS.gov, along with answers to frequently-asked questions about the payroll tax exemption and the related new hire retention credit. The new law requires that employers get a statement from each eligible new hire, certifying under penalties of perjury, that he or she was unemployed during the 60 days before beginning work or, alternatively, worked fewer than a total of 40 hours for anyone during the 60-day period. Employers can use Form W-11 to meet this requirement.

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