Form 8850 due date and WOTC credit for one hire

It turns one hire into four numbers. Enter the first day of work, the certified target group, first-year wages and hours, and it returns the Form 8850 due date twenty-eight calendar days after the start date, how many days are left, the twenty-five or forty percent credit rate set by the 120 and 400 hour bands, and the credit after the group wage cap is applied.

US small-business owners, HR managers and bookkeepers who hire from WOTC target groups - staffing firms, restaurants, warehouses, home care agencies and manufacturers. It is built for the person who signs the offer letter and then has to get Form 8850 and ETA 9061 to a state workforce agency before the twenty-eighth calendar day runs out.

Authority to claim the credit lapsed for wages paid after 2025-12-31, so chatbots now answer either that WOTC pays 9600 with no mention of the lapse, or that WOTC is dead and not worth filing. Both answers lose money. State workforce agencies still accept Form 8850 and hold it, and past lapses were restored retroactively for employers who filed on time.

Every calculation is free and unlimited - the due date, days left, the rate band, the wage cap and the credit for any hire, with no watermark and no lock after N runs. The 60 dollar key adds a different axis: it keeps the hires you have checked and exports them as a dated CSV filing log, and it sets a day-21 and day-27 alarm on each open window.

WOTC screening services are paid on contingency, typically fifteen to twenty-five percent of every credit they capture. On a 5600 veteran credit that is 840 to 1400 taken out of one hire. A bookkeeper billing 75 an hour who rebuilds the 28-day date and the wage cap by hand for each new hire costs less per hire but misses more windows.