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January 13, 2021
DELAWARE – The Delaware Volunteer Firefighter’s Association is warning residents about a phone scam that’s being reported all across the state.
Officials say they’ve gotten several reports over the past couple of weeks about phone calls asking for donations for Volunteer Fire Companies as well as Fire and EMS organizations. They say this tends to happen every year and scammers tend to use Delaware area codes to trick people. However, officials say Delaware fire organizations rarely ever call people in order to get donations.
“A lot of people are unsuspecting or don’t realize that in the state of Delaware, the volunteer fire companies very seldom if ever use phone solicitations. All their solicitations are by mail,” says Warren Jones, the Executive Manager of the Delaware Volunteer Firefighter’s Association.
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january 1st. heather and ainsley. doug luzader thank you very much. two-thirds of fire departments around the country maned by volunteers but the irs considers them employees. because of the affordable care act this could have dire consequences on those men and women keeping all of us safe. pennsylvania fire commissioner ed man talked about this on the real story. the affordable care act could put volunteer fire companies in the position where they will have to take their hard earned money al money and contribute to healthcare. they already struggled with dollars they need to pay for equipment we don t need the additional expense. not all municipalities can
employer responsibility provision. you know what? there are a bunch of people in washington watching right now, why don t you go ahead and make the case of why this is a dumb idea and why volunteers should not be considered employees by the irs. the easiest way to resolve this is exempt volunteer fire companies, volunteer rescue companies and those people who provide volunteer ambulance service. the issue goes away then. it becomes a nonissue. if not, there is a very good possibility and a lot of small communities across the country, there won t be a fire department. there may not be a volunteer rescue service. there may not be a volunteer ambulance service. it would seem to me the common sense would be the irs would just say would do exactly what you re saying and exempt volunteer fire departments. but with washington, d.c., you never know what they re going to do. unfortunately, my town has a volunteer fire department. all across new jersey, 97% of
volunteers, as employees even though they don t get paid. even though they re a volunteer, they re considered employees for tax purposes and stuff like that. under the affordable care act what that means is if you ve got 50 volunteers in your town, you re going to have to provide insurance for them. unfortunately, towns can t afford that. there is a simple way to fix this, according to a pennsylvania fire chief. he joined us earlier to explain. the easiest way to resolve this is exempt volunteer fire companies. if not, there is a very good possibility and a lot of small communities across the country, there won t be a fire department. there may not be a volunteer rescue service. there may not be a volunteer ambulance service. let s hope the irs does the right thing and exempts volunteer fire departments. otherwise they re going to have to provide it and towns don t have money. or they ll have to let some of them go, i guess. would you let them go if they re