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Procedure Name: | Working with Reliant as a Commissioned or Ordained Minister |
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Scope: | All Staff |
Revision Date: | January 26, 2024 |
Last Review Date: | January 26, 2024 |
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the process of claiming your status as a commissioned or ordained minister in relation to your work with Reliant. |
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You are not required to claim your work as a commissioned/ordained minister to your work with Reliant. When you submit your certificate, your tax status is immediately changed and cannot be reverted unless your job role changes where you are no longer performing ministerial services. |
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Understand the tax implications
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Consult a tax professional
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Resource: Chapter 6 in Zondervan Minister's Tax and Financial Guide
Make a well-informed decision about Social Security
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Highlights:
- Ministers are granted the ability to seek an exemption from Social Security if they meet certain requirements.
- An exemption results in ceasing contributions to and eligibility for both Social Security (retirement protection as well as other assistance programs) and Medicare (medical insurance for those over 65 and disabled).
- By default, ministers remain in the Social Security system and are required to continue making payments directly to the IRS for their Social Security/Medicare coverage (see details below).
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Reliant is not able to provide counsel in this decision and cannot assist in filing forms with the IRS. It is a personal decision that each minister must decide based on their own convictions. We encourage you to read the relevant information in the Zondervan Minister's Tax and Financial Guide and talk with other ministers in your decision-making process. |
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By submitting your certificate to Reliant, you are choosing to apply your new tax status to your work with Reliant. This is not a required step. Once you submit your certificate, we must immediately change your tax status to no longer withhold FICA taxes. Once this change is made, we can not revert the tax settings unless the Minister has a job role change in which they are no longer performing ministerial services.
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By submitting your certificate to Reliant, you are choosing to apply your new tax status to your work with Reliant. |
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Notify Reliant of your Commissioning/Ordination and your Tax Decisions
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Once you submit your certificate, we must immediately change your tax status to no longer withhold FICA taxes. Once this change is made, we can not revert the tax settings unless the Minister has a job role change in which they are no longer performing ministerial services. Helpful Solomon page regarding certificate requirements - Commissioned, Licensed and/or Ordained Minister Certificate Requirements If you would like to claim your work with Reliant as that of a Commissioned/Ordained Minister, proceed to the next section. Otherwise, no further action is necessary. |
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Whom to email: benefits@reliant.org
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Decide if you would like to take the FICA Bonus
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Research options for paying SECA to the IRS
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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
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Whom to email: benefits@reliant.org
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Whom to email: benefits@reliant.org
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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
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5. Submit an updated job description
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Resource: Job Description
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Additional Resources
- Claiming Exemption from Social Security Taxes
- Paying SECA Taxes
- Parsonage
- ECFA Ministers' Tax and Financial Guide
- Ministers' Tax Guide by Guidestone
- Worth's Income Tax Guide for Ministers. You can contact them at 574-269-2121. They are located in Warsaw, Indiana.
- IRS Publication 517, “Social Security and Other Information for Members of the Clergy and Religious Workers”
- Commissioned, Licensed and/or Ordained Minister Certificate Requirements
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