WIP CEU Webinar Series: Unincurred Business Expenses and Unpaid Help: The Gifts that Give Twice
$20
October 20, 2026 | 1:00-3:00 p.m. ET
Unlike employees, self-employed workers can’t use subsidies and special conditions for SGA determinations. The good news is they can use two other work incentives – unincurred business expenses and unpaid help – which can often be even more effective at keeping their countable income below SGA than subsidies and special conditions. Unincurred business expenses (business expenses provided to a self-employed worker by another party at no cost) and unpaid help with a business both involve self-employed people receiving free items or services, that is, gifts. These work incentives enable self-employed workers to subtract the value of these gifted items and services from their countable income…even though they didn’t pay for them.
Learn the details about unincurred business expenses and unpaid help, including:
- Which kinds of expenses are allowed as unincurred business expenses
- How to compute the value of unpaid help with a business
- When free help with a business should be considered an unincurred business expense and when it should be counted as unpaid help
- Case examples of how to use unincurred business expenses and unpaid help
- Impact of business structure on whether a worker can use unincurred business expenses and unpaid help
- How these work incentives benefit blind self-employed food vendors in the Randolph-Sheppard program
- A Work Incentive Practitioner’s role regarding unincurred business expenses and unpaid help