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Details: 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%, and Reliant will add in 8.25% to cover the tax on the bonus. 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: hr@reliant.org

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.

Resources: Support Goal on Staffnet

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.

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