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- Lost Work Due to COVID-19
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New unemployment system issues? Philadelphia Legal Assistance offers help – Technical.ly Philly
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The site offers step-by-step guides for how to file a claim, answers to frequently asked questions and a survey allowing unemployment users to give feedback on the system.
‘We tried to make it a little more user-friendly than the overwhelming amount of information on the department’s website,’ Simon-Mishel said."
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On July 8, PLA’s Taxpayer Support Clinic launched our new Reclaim Your Worker Rights poster. PLA worked in collaboration with the Center for Urban Pedagogy to develop this new resource on worker misclassification. The poster discusses what worker misclassification is, how it can harm taxpayers, and how taxpayers can challenge their misclassification as independent contractors before the IRS. The Taxpayer Support Clinic helps low-income Philadelphians challenge their misclassification so that they only pay the correct share of tax. In conjunction with the poster, PLA developed a new self-help tool that works through the Form SS-8 that taxpayers can use to challenge their classification: www.myss8.org.
This poster is available for free to download online here (where you can also find out more information about it): welcometocup.org/Projects/MakingPolicyPublic/ReclaimYourWorkerRights.
More details about the poster were also discussed among an expert panel of professionals and individuals who worked on the poster design here in this Facebook Live presentation that PLA did with Councilmember Kendra Brooks Reclaim Your Workers Rights! With Philadelphia Legal Assistance.
For copies of the physical poster itself, please email [email protected] For more PLA resources on worker misclassification, please visit the following page: philalegal.org/resources/worker-misclassification