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Payroll Tax Holiday-  What's The Impact on Employee Pay?

Posted by Jay Schulze on 8/10/20 3:23 PM
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Topics: nanny, nanny payroll tax, nanny tax, agency, senior, CPA, Tax Holiday

Unemployment Claims for Household Employees During COVID-19

Posted by HomeWork Solutions on 6/16/20 3:45 PM

The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented job loss and disruption to the economy. Household workers are some of the most economically vulnerable workers, as they live paycheck to paycheck in many instances. While some highly qualified nannies are landing on their feet as their college education provides a good baseline to help with home schooling, other wonderful caregivers with less educational experience find themselves out of work with no immediate prospects.

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Topics: senior caregiver unemployment insurance, nanny unemployment insurance, nanny, agency, senior, CPA, COVID-19

How the CARES Act affects employer-sponsored benefits

Posted by HomeWork Solutions on 5/28/20 4:49 PM

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act isn’t just about easing employers’ tax burdens. It also impacts employee benefits.

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Topics: nanny, agency, senior, CPA, coronavirus, COVID-19

CA  Household Employees with COVID-19 Presumed Covered by Workers' Compensation

Posted by HomeWork Solutions on 5/26/20 7:00 AM

California Governor Gavin Newsom's Executive Order N-62-20 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic effectively means that a nanny, senior caregiver or other household employee with test-confirmed COVID-19 illness will be presumptively compensable by workers’ compensation.

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Topics: nanny, agency, senior, CPA

Virginia Wage Theft Laws Become Worker Friendly

Posted by HomeWork Solutions on 5/21/20 9:53 AM

Virginia labor laws have historically been friendly to employers. New legislation signed into law this year, however, significantly changes a worker’s right to redress in an area of keen importance to household employers – namely wage theft.

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Topics: nanny, agency, senior, CPA

Mom's senior aide is working more hours. How do I calculate overtime?

Posted by HomeWork Solutions on 5/12/20 4:45 PM

Engaging a senior care aide to help a beloved aging family member is complex. You need to balance the needs and preferences of the adult receiving the assistance, budget, and administration. Ask any friend who has done this and they will confirm that there is one constant - that nothing is constant and needs are constantly evolving.

Many senior care aides support the elderly in Senior Living Apartment centers, many of whom are forbidding FAMILY and FRIENDS from visiting their residents during the COVID pandemic, and the aides are assuming many responsibilities that family used to do.

 

When hours increase and you need to calculate your senior caregiver’s overtime, it can get confusing sometimes. Here is a helpful example.

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Topics: agency, senior, CPA

CPA's Lean on HWS for Household Payroll Support

Posted by HomeWork Solutions on 5/7/20 11:29 AM

HomeWork Solutions has supported families nationwide in their household payroll tax compliance for nearly 30 years. We have experienced trying times before - from 9/11, the Dot-Com and Real Estate crashes, to natural disasters. Never has the pace of change been so sweeping and global as the Coronavirus Pandemic and resultant economic shut down.

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Topics: agency, CPA

Attention Fiduciaries: Don’t Forget Household Employment Tax Obligations

Posted by HomeWork Solutions on 5/5/20 10:56 AM

Professional fiduciaries are educationally qualified individuals who care for the financial and personal care needs of individuals who are unable to do so themselves, and who have no close family or friends who are able and/or willing to do so for them.

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Topics: senior, CPA

CARES ACT changes retirement plan and charitable contribution rules

Posted by HomeWork Solutions on 4/30/20 9:30 AM

During the COVID-19 crisis, many people and charitable organizations need cash. The new CARES Act may provide some solutions.

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Topics: nanny, agency, senior, CPA, coronavirus, COVID-19

My Nanny Filed for Unemployment! What do I do?

Posted by HomeWork Solutions on 4/24/20 7:45 AM

COVID-19 and the resultant economic disruption caused many household employers to lay off nannies and senior caregivers they had depended on before the pandemic.

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Topics: nanny, agency, senior, CPA, COVID-19

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