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1. Email a copy of your certificate to Reliant

Whom to email: benefits@reliant.org

The certificate will be reviewed by a Reliant director and once it has been approved, you will be notified and your tax settings will be changed.

2. Notify Employment Services about your tax decisions


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Decide if you would like to take the FICA Bonus 

Reliant offers a bonus to offset the additional obligation of tax previously paid by the employer for Social Security. The amount of that tax obligation is 7.65%. This bonus will increase your monthly salary and will be included in your monthly paycheck.

Details: Once Reliant receives notification that you would like the bonus, you will receive a new salary offer. 

  • Ministers who communicate their decision to Reliant to remain in the social security system within 3 months of communicating their ordination/commissioning to Reliant will be eligible for the 7.65% FICA Bonus retroactively to the time period they began receiving Reliant wages as a minister. 

  • Ministers who communicate this decision to Reliant anytime after 3 months will be eligible for the 7.65% FICA bonus beginning with the next available pay date. (You will only be eligible for up to 3 months of retroactive FICA bonus and must request that in your email.) 

Whom to email: benefits@reliant.org

Research options for paying SECA to the IRS

Details: Remember, you must begin to pay your own Social Security tax (now called SECA since you are considered self-employed) from the point in time that you are paid Reliant wages as a minister.

See Paying SECA Taxes for more information

Resource: Chapter 7 in Zondervan Minister's Tax and Financial Guide



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If you have an exemption from Social Security, your email must explicitly state, “I am exempt from the Social Security System because I am conscientiously opposed to receiving public insurance as a minister.”

Whom to email: benefits@reliant.org


3. Complete a Parsonage Request form if you wish to receive Minister's Housing Allowance (Parsonage)

 

Details: Once your parsonage amount has been approved, it will become effective on the next applicable pay period. To change your parsonage amount in the future, simply complete a new Parsonage Request form and share it with benefits@reliant.org for approval. Dave Meldrum-Green, our director of Organizational Affairs & treasurer, reviews and approves all parsonage requests. See Parsonage for more information. 

Resource: Chapter 4 in Zondervan Minister's Tax and Financial Guide

Whom to email: benefits@reliant.org


4. Submit a new Support Goal


Details: Make sure to wait to submit a new Support Goal until you have received confirmation that your bonus request has been processed.

Submitting a new Support Goal accepts and activates the bonus.

Resource: Support Goal on Staffnet


5. Submit an updated job description


Details: Send in a new job description to your program team liaison reflecting your responsibilities as a commissioned or ordained minister.

Resource: Job Description

Whom to email: Your Reliant Program Team Liaison


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