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Additional Requirements for • Have served on active duty (not including training) in the
Certification Armed Forces of the United States for more than 180 days or
have been discharged or released from active duty for a
In addition to submitting Form 8850, you must complete and service-connected disability, and
send to your state WOTC coordinator either: • Not have a period of active duty (not including training) of
• ETA Form 9062, Conditional Certification, if the job more than 90 days that ended during the 60-day period
applicant received this form from a participating agency (for ending on the hiring date.
example, the Jobs Corps); or 3. Qualified ex-felon. An ex-felon who has been
• ETA Form 9061, Individual Characteristics Form (ICF), if convicted of a felony under any federal or state statute, and
the job applicant didn't receive a conditional certification; and is hired not more than 1 year after the conviction or release
• ETA Form 9175, Long-Term Unemployment Recipient from prison for that felony.
Self-Attestation Form, if the job applicant is a qualified 4. Designated community resident. An individual who
long-term unemployment recipient. is at least age 18 but not yet age 40 on the hiring date and
You can get ETA Form 9061 and ETA Form 9175 from lives within an empowerment zone or rural renewal county
your local public employment service office or you can (defined later).
download it from the ETA website at 5. Vocational rehabilitation referral. An individual who
www.doleta.gov/business/Incentives/opptax/how-to-file. has a physical or mental disability resulting in a substantial
Recordkeeping handicap to employment and who was referred to the
employer upon completion of (or while receiving)
Keep copies of Forms 8850, any transmittal letters that you rehabilitation services by a rehabilitation agency approved by
submit to your state WOTC coordinator, and certification the state, an employment network under the Ticket to Work
letters you receive from your WOTC coordinator as long as program, or the Department of Veterans Affairs.
they may be needed for the administration of the provisions 6. Summer youth employee. An individual who:
relating to the work opportunity credit. Records that support • Performs services for the employer between May 1 and
the credit usually must be kept for 3 years from the date any September 15;
income tax return claiming the credit is due or filed, • Is at least age 16 but not yet age 18 on the hiring date (or,
whichever is later. if later, on May 1);
Members of Targeted Groups • Has never worked for the employer before; and
• Lives within an empowerment zone.
A job applicant may be certified as a member of a targeted 7. Recipient of SNAP benefits (food stamps). An
group if he or she is described in one of the following groups. individual who:
1. Qualified IV-A recipient. An individual who is a • Is at least age 18 but not yet age 40 on the hiring date, and
member of a family receiving assistance under a state plan • Is a member of a family that:
approved under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act a. Has received SNAP benefits for the 6-month period
relating to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). ending on the hiring date; or
The assistance must be received for any 9 months during the
18-month period ending on the hiring date. b. Is no longer eligible for such assistance under section
2. Qualified veteran. A veteran who is any of the 6(o) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, but the family
received SNAP benefits for at least 3 months of the 5-month
following. period ending on the hiring date.
• A member of a family that has received Supplemental 8. SSI recipient. An individual who is receiving
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits (food stamps) supplemental security income benefits under title XVI of the
for at least a 3-month period during the 15-month period Social Security Act (including benefits of the type described
ending on the hiring date. in section 1616 of the Social Security Act or section 212 of
• Unemployed for a period or periods totaling at least 4
weeks (whether or not consecutive) but less than 6 months in Public Law 93-66) for any month ending during the 60-day
period ending on the hiring date.
the 1-year period ending on the hiring date.
• Unemployed for a period or periods totaling at least 6 9. Long-term family assistance recipient. An
months (whether or not consecutive) in the 1-year period individual who is a member of a family that:
ending on the hiring date. • Has received TANF payments for at least 18 consecutive
• Entitled to compensation for a service-connected disability months ending on the hiring date; or
and is hired not more than 1 year after being discharged or • Receives TANF payments for any 18 months (whether or
released from active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces. not consecutive) beginning after August 5, 1997, and the
• Entitled to compensation for a service-connected disability earliest 18-month period beginning after August 5, 1997,
and was unemployed for a period or periods totaling at least ended during the past 2 years; or
6 months (whether or not consecutive) in the 1-year period • Stopped being eligible for TANF payments because
ending on the hiring date. federal or state law limits the maximum period such
Note. Requesting the information in box 4 or box 5 of Form assistance is payable and the individual is hired not more
8850 is an exception to the Americans with Disabilities Act's than 2 years after such eligibility ended.
prohibition on pre-offer disability-related inquiries. The 10. Qualified long-term unemployment recipient. An
purpose of this request is to support the hiring of certain individual who on the day before the individual begins work
disabled veterans, which may entitle the employer to a larger for the employer, or, if earlier, the day the individual
work opportunity credit than the hiring of other targeted group completes Form 8850 as a pre-screening notice, is in a
members. period of unemployment that:
To be considered a veteran, the applicant must: • Is not less than 27 consecutive weeks, and

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