It appears that a second round of Social Security Administration No-Match letters are being issued. We have received a few of these letters in the TCGA office. If you receive one of these letters, please forward it to the TCGA office, and we will be glad to help you through this process. We will be [...]
The National Cotton Council Issues the following Memo yesterday: With the inclusion of seed cotton in Title I of the farm bill, ginners play a critical role in the determination of the cottonseed price component of the seed cotton price calculation. It is critical that gins accurately and promptly respond to the price request within [...]
The National Cotton Council recently distributed a memo announcing sign‐up for the 2018 Farm Bill has begun. The National Cotton Council staff will conduct 2018 Farm Bill education webinars later this month as follows: Thursday, September 19, 8:00 am Monday, September 23, 8:00 am Wednesday, September 25, 8:00 am Thursday, September 26, 10:00 am Click [...]
Please see the attached letter from the National Cotton Council related to training assistance and a training video that are now available to assist cotton gins in their contamination prevention efforts:
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 [...]
