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APA Bookshelf

PayrollOrg

PayState Update – Volume 22 – 2020. PayState Update is a biweekly electronic newsletter covering state and local payroll compliance news and issues. Payroll Currently is a monthly electronic newsletter covering payroll compliance news and issues. The Payroll Source Study Guide, 2020-2021. PayState Update – All Issues.

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The Curious Case of I-Bonds: Too Good to Be True?

Money Talk

From May 2020 through October 2022, the fixed rate was 0.0% (zero). In 2008, bond purchases became available electronically and in 2012 paper U.S. Up to $10,000 of I-bonds can be purchased electronically down to the penny (e.g., at least for a six month period. First, some savings bond history.

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2022 Personal Finance Year in Review

Money Talk

in April 2020, started the year at 4.7% 2022 also saw car and electronics supply (and prices) affected by a continued shortage of computer chips, a baby formula shortage, and many consumers returning to pre-pandemic shopping, travel, and entertainment habits. Savings Rates - The U.S. savings rate, which rose to a record 33.8%

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So, I “Bit the Bullet” and Finally E-filed Our Taxes

Money Talk

Last year, I wrote a post that described the pros and cons of filing your income taxes by paper or electronically (e-filing). When we got the SSA notice at year-end about 2023 Social Security benefits, our 2023 Medicare premiums were based on 2020 income, instead of 2021 income as they should have been with a two-year look back.

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Managing Work Stress in a Changing World

Achievers

We’ve taken our EI Competency Cards and made them available electronically with an audio voice-over explanation of each competency and team exercises. This will be available at the end of May 2020. We’re offering different online training programs on our Southwest Institute for Emotional Intelligence training website.

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Finger on the pulse: Is biometrics the future of workplace wellbeing?

Workplace Insight

Neurotechnology, which uses electronics to read brain activity and can contextualise employee behaviour and interactions, is also anticipated to ramp up dramatically in use in that timeframe, from 3 percent to 31 percent. When HLW moved office in 2020, we used biometric devices to compare our new space to the old.

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Failing to Check a Driver’s Clearinghouse Record Can Leave Your Company Exposed

InterWest Insurance Services

To ensure the safety of our roadways, as of 2020, it became mandatory that all registered motor carriers sign up their drivers in the Clearinghouse and run their driver rosters through the system to clear them for duty.