TCGA is adding a new position in Austin! The primary duties of this position will be to work with the Director of Technical Services on TCEQ, Department of Labor, and other regulatory issues. We are looking for a degreed engineer with experience in the cotton ginning industry. If you know of someone that may [...]
The Social Security Administration (SSA) issued a letter to Congressman Costa from California earlier this week related to the "Educational Correspondence (EDCOR)/Employer Correction Request (i.e. "no-match") letters. Click Here to read the letter (letter posted courtesy of Dowling Aaron Incorporated). In this letter, the SSA describes their letter as "educational" and states that the purpose [...]
We have received calls from several gins that have gone through the process of obtaining the mismatch names from the Social Security Administration Business Services Online system (SSA BSO), but when they get to the screen that is supposed to show the names, there are no names listed. It turns out that if you did [...]
If you have logged onto the Social Security Administration (SSA) BSO web site, and could not find your mismatched names, please let us know. We have heard from a few gins that followed the instructions exactly, but they did not find the list of names in the place where it should be. If you are [...]
This is a corrected version of the article sent out Saturday. The links in the previous article did not work properly. I apologize for that error and the version below does contain working links. We have been working hard to obtain the best information for our members in responding to the "no-match" letters. The [...]
We have had a lot of calls come into TCGA offices over the last 24 hours with questions related to how to sign into the SSA Business Online Services system. Here are a few tips: First of all, be aware that after you set up an account, they will mail you an activation code, so [...]
We have spent a lot of time and effort over the last month and consulted with experts in the employment law field trying to determine the best possible advice to give related to the Social Security Administration (SSA) no-match letters. Most recently we have been discussing these issues with attorneys from Fisher Phillips, who have [...]
We have set up a twitter account for Texas Cotton Ginners Association! Follow us @GinnersTexas. In additional to our normal email distribution, we will be sending out newsletters and alerts through this media going forward. Aaron and I are only marginally familiar with Twitter, so please be patient with us as we work through the [...]
Judging from the number of phone calls we have received at TCGA, many of you are receiving letters from the Social Security Administration (SSA) notifying you that there was a mis-match between the information submitted by your company and the records at the SSA. This letter also suggests that you log into the SSA business [...]
We have received detailed guidance related to the Social Security mismatch letters that the gins have been receiving from the Social Security Administration (SSA). Click Here to view an excellent opinion piece about how to respond, courtesy of the Saqui Law Group, a division of Dowling Aaron. From my reading of the piece, they make [...]
