Understanding Your Pay Stub

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Across
  1. 1. a person or organization that employs people.
  2. 4. a feature of a qualified profit-sharing plan that allows employees to contribute a portion of their wages to individual accounts for retirement
  3. 6. shows important information about the income you've earned from your employer, amount of taxes withheld from your paycheck, benefits provided and other information for the year.
  4. 7. a national legislative body, especially that of the US. The US Congress, which meets at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., was established by the Constitution of 1787 and is composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives
  5. 9. a document that's given to an employee each payday
  6. 10. a person who relies on another, especially a family member, for financial support.
  7. 16. refuse to give (something that is due to or is desired by another)
  8. 18. a type of prepaid debit card for your employees
  9. 21. employers must withhold payroll taxes from employee wages and submit them to tax agencies.
  10. 22. allows your employer to make deposits straight into your bank account instead of giving you a paper check to deposit yourself
  11. 24. the action or fact of leaving one's job and ceasing to work
  12. 25. the amount of protection given by an insurance policy or trust
Down
  1. 2. a person employed for wages or salary, especially at nonexecutive level.
  2. 3. the IRS document you complete for your employer to determine how much should be withheld from your paycheck for federal income taxes and sent to the IRS.
  3. 5. (in the US) a federal insurance program that provides benefits to retired people and those who are unemployed or disabled.
  4. 8. working for oneself as a freelancer or the owner of a business rather than for an employer.
  5. 11. amounts which an employee has elected to have subtracted from gross pay
  6. 12. an amount that is or may be deducted from something, especially from taxable income or tax to be paid.
  7. 13. the amount of money employees actually take home after all payroll deductions
  8. 14. earned wages before payroll deductions
  9. 15. a part or portion of a larger amount which is divided among a number of people, or to which a number of people contribute
  10. 17. a payment or gift made by an employer, the state, or an insurance company.
  11. 19. legal arrangements that allow individuals to place assets in a special account to benefit another person or entity
  12. 20. federal health insurance program for: People who are 65 or older. Certain younger people with disabilities. People with End-Stage Renal Disease
  13. 23. a check for salary or wages made out to an employee