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Laid-off Religious Workers Denied Jobless Benefits <BR> <BR><blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1><b>quote:</b></font><p>God may provide, but the state may not when it comes to unemployment benefits for employees laid off by churches, synagogues, and other religious groups. <BR> <BR>Carol Bronson discovered that a few months ago after she lost her secretarial job at Temple Emanuel synagogue in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Bronson assumed she could draw unemployment benefits, but when she filed a claim, she was denied. <BR> <BR>It was a hard way to learn that under Virginia law, as in many states, tax exemptions for religious organizations include freedom from paying unemployment taxes, though the IRS requires they pay Social Security and withholding taxes. <BR> <BR>...<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote> <BR> <BR><a href="http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2624" target=_top>http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2624</a>
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Isn't it necessary for an employer to cover employees with unemployment insurance in order for them to receive benefits?
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<b><font size="+1">Who Pays for Uemployment Insurance? </font></b> <BR> <BR>The unemployment insurance program is operated on general insurance principles wherein the employer pays the premium, with the exception of the reimbursable employers who are self-insured and, therefore, reimburse the Department for benefits actually paid to former employees. <BR> <BR>Bob, as a former administrator, it's surprising that you didn't know this.
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Read the whole article, Elaine, if you are tax exempt, you have to opt for self funding of some sort of unemployment tax, if your state doesn't take it out like Virginia. New York is different. It does not require the Non-profit or tax exempt employrer in Virginia to self fund, the Catholics apparently do for their employees but not every denomination does or has to.
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The employee in question must not have elected to self-fund so the church opted out, as she did. <BR>Evidently, the church took advantage of Virgina law. <BR> <BR>I do not know what is the official position of the Adventist church on unemployment insurance.
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Now you got it. Some states don't have a mandate, and some tax free employers don't have the foresight to look out for their tax free employees, as the Catholic diocese did in Richmond, VA. <BR> <BR>In that regard, the Catholics have the SDA beat wouldn't you say???
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Sure do!
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