With the new year may come the need for new hires, so it’s a good time for a refresh on new hire reporting. As you likely already know, you, as an employer, are required to submit information on newly hired employees on a regular basis. New hire reports aid states in finding non-custodial parents, establishing a child support order or enforcing an existing order.
States also share the information from your new hire reports to the National Directory of New Hires (NDNH). Having the information circulated on a national level is important because 30 percent of child support cases involve parents who do not live in the same state as their children.
So how much work is it for you? The majority of the information you need to submit is information you already have. It can be found on your employee’s W-4 form.
