S. 1785: Back to Work Tax Credit
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S. 1785: Back to Work Tax Credit
112th Congress · introduced 2011-11-02 · Taxation · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2011-11-02 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Back to Work Tax Credit
Plain summary
Back to Work Tax Credit - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an increased work opportunity tax credit for the hiring of a qualified long-term unemployed individual. Defines "qualified long-term unemployed individual" as any individual who was not a student for at least six months during the one-year period ending on the hiring date and is certified as having aggregate periods of unemployment during the one-year period ending on the hiring date which equal or exceed six months. Allows tax-exempt charitable organizations or public institutions of higher education to claim the lesser of the amount of the work opportunity credit or the amount of payroll taxes paid during the calendar year for hiring qualified long-term unemployed individuals.
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Official text
Back to Work Tax Credit
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Sponsor: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] · 0 cosponsors
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Sponsor's campaign money: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] reported raising $771,465 (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-112s1785.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/112/s>
Record fed-us-cong112-s1785 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112