The Work Opportunity Tax Credit helps people move from welfare to work and gain on-the-job experience by encouraging private employers to hire within one of several targeted groups of job candidates who traditionally face significant barriers to employment, reducing employer’s federal income tax liability by as much as $2,400 per qualified new worker in the first year of employment. The targeted candidates are: 

• cash assistance recipients
• veterans receiving food stamps
• disabled veteran
• unemployed veteran
• disabled unemployed veteran
• 18-to-39-year-old recipients receiving food stamps
• 18-to-39-year-old residents living in a rural renewal county
• vocational rehabilitation referrals
• ex-felons
• SSI recipients
• Ticket-to-Work holders

 
The disabled unemployed veteran target group can save employers up to $9,600 in the first year of employment.

Documents

• Applying for WOTC in Four Easy Steps 
• New Hire Criteria
• List of Rural Renewal Counties 
• ETA 9061
• IRS Instructions For Form 8850
• Form IRS 8850 
• Form IRS 8850 (Spanish)
• Form IRS 8850 – IRS Notice 2013-14 Transitional Relief

• WOTC Program Brochure 
• WOTC Veteran Brochure

Electronic submittal of forms:

• Kansas WOTC LiveFile