Crazynut

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1. Best Travel Companies

   Crazynut replied to brookiern's topic in Travel

   So true! So many haters on here! Everyone is different. I could not have traveled with 1 yr experience. I was still a scared new grad. But I have friends that traveled with 1 yr experience. And they did great. Policies and work flow are different but...

2. Verbal Contract

   Crazynut replied to cincin1222's topic in Travel

   Awwww! Yea you cant trust anyone these days! I dont understand why a company would take a nurse to collections! I wish they would. I wish they would! People these days.

3. Verbal Contract

   Crazynut replied to cincin1222's topic in Travel

   I would block their phone number and block them from your email. You dont have to talk to them. Thats really low them threatening collections. I wouldnt sweat it. It's usually just talk. But if they do I would get a lawyer. What company is it? A litt...

4. Verbal Contract

   Crazynut replied to cincin1222's topic in Travel

   I would kick them to the curb. It's industry standard that verbal acceptance is pending contract negotiation. Some companies expect you to say that when you accept. I dont accept over the phone. I email my recruiter and I state in the email that I "a...

5. Don't understand take home pay

   Crazynut replied to cincin1222's topic in Travel

   Oh to answer your question. I can not decided what constitutes wage recharacterization. Congress makes the law and the court system interprets the law. You should look at the case law. It's the court the has the final say. That's how it works. Gotta ...

6. Don't understand take home pay

   Crazynut replied to cincin1222's topic in Travel

   Consistent with legislative history, the preamble to Treasury Decision 8324, 55 FR 51688, 1991-1 C.B. 20, 21 (1990), states: Some practitioners have asked whether a portion of an employee's salary may be recharacterized as being paid under a reimbur...

7. Don't understand take home pay

   Crazynut replied to cincin1222's topic in Travel

   Do not mingle wages and reimbursements – they are separate componentsHourly per diems are problematicWages are paid for work - reimbursements are paid for expenses incurred in performing the work. Hourly per diemsshould be avoided as they are daily...

8. Don't understand take home pay

   Crazynut replied to cincin1222's topic in Travel

   http://www.traveltax.com/TaxEdArticles/TravellingTaxRelated/Tax%20Issues%20HC%20Staffing.pdf "The primary issue is the re-characterization of wages," said Joseph Smith of TravelTax LLC. "That is an illegal tactic, which from acompany perspective, exp...

9. Don't understand take home pay

   Crazynut replied to cincin1222's topic in Travel

   NedRN can you site a source? All my sources say that it's illegal. I have several friends that are lawyers. I always have them look over my contracts. All of them have warned me to be careful about wage recharacterization. We even discussed case law ...

10. Don't understand take home pay

    Crazynut replied to cincin1222's topic in Travel

    7 Things to Know about Travel Nursing Pay & Wage Recharacterization here is another link that explains is a little better. Nothing wrong with getting tax free money when you have taxable home. But there has to be limits. Otherwise travel nurses c...

11. Don't understand take home pay

    Crazynut replied to cincin1222's topic in Travel

    It's pretty clear. Did you read the example? Employers are not allowed to take money from taxable rate and shift it into tax free money. For example, I had one company that told me she could take $1 from my taxable rate. Give it as housing. Tax free ...

12. Don't understand take home pay

    Crazynut replied to cincin1222's topic in Travel

    http://www.irs.gov/PUP/businesses/RR201225.pdf this explains it. It uses a travel nurse as an example. There's also really good articles about it on bluepipe. People go crazy with this tax free money. It doesn't work that way. The IRS has set limits ...

13. Don't understand take home pay

    Crazynut replied to cincin1222's topic in Travel

    Wage recharacterization is illegal. It's when the travel company takes money from your taxable hrly rate and shifts it to tax free housing meals. Of course this is industry standard but its still illegal. You can google it. Many articles about it. Al...

14. Kaiser taped interview

    Crazynut replied to HikingNinja's topic in Travel

    I called the number but I never did the interview. It just seemed really weird to me that my voice recording is on record somewhere. I don't know who will listen to it or have access to it. I told my recruiter I wasn't feeling it. I figured if the hi...

15. Health insurance for families

    Crazynut replied to MiaLyse's topic in Travel

    Cobra is too expensive for most people to afford. OP is trying to find solutions to a ticky problem. No need to be rude!