Every new hire you make could be worth up to $9,600 in federal Work Opportunity Tax Credits — but only if they are screened before day one and Form 8850 reaches the state inside 28 days. WOTC Plus automates the screening, files the paperwork, chases the certifications, and hands you clean reporting. You just keep hiring.
WOTC is one of the few federal incentives you qualify for simply by hiring the way you already hire. The money is lost in the process, not the eligibility.
If a new hire is not screened on or before their start date, the credit is gone — no exceptions, no retroactive fix. Paper forms buried in an onboarding packet get a fraction of the completion rate of a text message.
Form 8850 must reach the State Workforce Agency within 28 calendar days of the start date. One missed batch, one week of PTO in HR, and a fully qualified hire becomes worth exactly zero.
Filing is not the finish line. Denials, information requests and pending determinations sit in a queue nobody owns — so credits that were earned are never actually claimed on the return.
Miss it by a single day and a $2,400–$9,600 credit is permanently forfeited. WOTC Plus puts that clock on autopilot: screening fires at offer or onboarding, Form 8850 and ETA 9061 are prepared and batch-filed automatically, and every submission is tracked to a final determination.
Move the sliders. Watch the number that your CFO has never seen.
Illustrative modeling only, based on typical target-group qualification rates by industry. Actual Work Opportunity Tax Credit results depend on your workforce, hire dates, hours worked, wages paid, state certification outcomes and your tax position. WOTC Plus does not provide tax advice — final credits should be confirmed with your tax advisor.
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No new system for HR to learn. No paperwork chase. No spreadsheet of pending certifications.
We plug into how you already onboard — ATS, onboarding platform, payroll or a simple census upload. Go-live typically takes days, not quarters.
New hires receive a secure link by SMS and email and finish a short, plain-language questionnaire on their phone in about 90 seconds — before day one, every time.
Form 8850 and ETA 9061 are generated, e-signed and batch-filed inside the 28-day window. Then our team works the State Workforce Agency queue until there is a determination.
Certifications, credit values and supporting documentation land in one dashboard, formatted for your controller, CPA or tax advisor at filing time.
The Work Opportunity Tax Credit rewards employers for hiring from groups that face barriers to employment. Most companies are already hiring these people. Very few are documenting it in time.
Maximum credit values shown per qualified employee. Actual credit depends on target group, hours worked and qualified first-year wages. See the full WOTC FAQ.
WOTC Plus is not a form generator you have to babysit. It is an automated screening engine wrapped in a service team that owns the outcome.
Secure, mobile-first questionnaires triggered at offer or onboarding, with automatic reminders that lift completion far above paper packets.
How screening works →Forms are prefilled from screening data, e-signed by the applicant and employer, validated for errors, then queued for submission.
Read the forms guide →Submissions are batched and transmitted to the correct State Workforce Agency well inside the 28-day statutory window — no manual mailing, no missed deadlines.
Pending, submitted, approved, denied, incomplete and final determinations are tracked per employee, with follow-up owned by our team.
One place to see screening activity, hire dates, states, application status, estimated credits and outstanding items across every location.
Hours and wage data flow into credit calculation and reporting, so your controller is not rebuilding the math in a spreadsheet at year end.
See integrations →Named specialists who know state-by-state quirks, chase determinations and answer the phone — not a ticket queue and a knowledge base.
Meet the service model →Applicant information is collected with explicit consent and handled under documented security and privacy practices.
Our data security →Extend the same first-touch workflow to onboarding paperwork so WOTC screening rides along with documents you already send.
Digital documents →Use this as your evaluation grid — with us or with anyone else. The gaps below are where employers quietly lose credits.
| Capability | WOTC Plus | Typical software-only vendor | In-house / DIY |
|---|---|---|---|
| Screening every new hire before day one | Automated SMS + email | Portal link, manual send | Paper packet, low completion |
| Form 8850 & ETA 9061 preparation | Prefilled + e-signed | Templates only | Manual data entry |
| Filing inside the 28-day window | Automated batch filing | Employer-triggered | Whenever HR gets to it |
| State Workforce Agency follow-up | Owned by our team | Not included | Rarely happens |
| Certification status tracking | Per-employee, end to end | Status field only | Spreadsheet |
| Multi-location & multi-state visibility | Single dashboard | Varies | Fragmented |
| Reporting formatted for your CPA | Included | Raw export | Built by hand |
| Credits beyond WOTC | R&D, benefit savings, more | WOTC only | Usually missed |
| Lift required from HR after go-live | Effectively none | Ongoing | Constant |
Comparison reflects common market patterns and is provided to help employers evaluate vendors. More on choosing a WOTC vendor →
Three illustrative models built on typical target-group qualification rates. Swap in your own numbers with the calculator above.
Illustrative scenarios for modeling purposes only. They are not client results, guarantees or projections of your outcome. Actual Work Opportunity Tax Credit amounts depend on target-group eligibility, hours worked, qualified wages, state certification and your tax position.
Once your hiring data is organized, other employer incentives become findable. Same team, same dashboard, more recovered dollars.
Federal and state research credits for qualifying product, process and software development work.
First-touch hiring workflows that keep employment verification clean, timely and auditable.
Programs designed to reduce employer cost while strengthening the benefits your people actually use.
A self-insured medical expense reimbursement structure built for employers managing payroll tax burden.
An automated scan of federal and state employer credits matched to your workforce, locations and hiring activity.
Still deciding? Read the extended WOTC FAQ or walk through how WOTC works.
Send us a simple hire list. We will model your Work Opportunity Tax Credit opportunity, show you exactly where credits are being forfeited, and tell you honestly if it is not worth your time.
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