Help Your Employees Receive Benefits They Deserve
Each tax season, SF Works can provide you with tools – from posters and copy for your employee bulletin board or newsletter, to tax forms, brochures and paycheck stuffers – to connect your employees to tax credits and other community and public supports and benefits.
When you tell your employees that they may be able to boost their incomes thanks to tax credits and other public and community benefits, it creates a chain reaction:
- You build good will
- That boosts employee retention
- That increases employee productivity
- Your employees have more money to spend in their community at local businesses like yours
How can you help your employees?
Employees earning up to $40,000 per year ($19.48/hour if fulltime) may qualify for:
- Up to $4,700 through the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
- $100 through the San Francisco Working Families Credit
- Free and low-cost health coverage for themselves and their children
- Discounted Muni passes
- Discounts on their gas and electric utilities
- Free or low-cost banking, grocery bill savings, and more.
About the Working Families Credit
SF Works, together with Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth inspired the City to create the Working Families Credit, which helps San Franciscans receive millions of dollars of previously under-accessed federal tax credits. But it does much more: It connects families to additional support like help with grocery bills, help with childcare, access to low-cost healthcare and financial literacy programs. As these family supports strengthen, individuals are better able to participate in building the health and vibrancy of their communities.
In its first two years (2005 & 2006), a total of more than 16,000 low-income working families received the credit, giving them a financial boost – and critically - connecting them to other work supports and services. The WFC - and its ongoing expansion as an access-point to services that help low-income workers advance and become more self-sufficient - was cited by the Brookings Institution as a “state of the art” initiative.
Read more about the success and outcomes of San Francisco’s Working Families Credit.
Read more about SF Works’ advocacy efforts to help build the assets of low-income workers.
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