NFHS softball rain-out pay

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by MNBlue

None of the officials I know like the voucher system, since some schools will take over 2 months to pay. But the schools use it to have a paper trail for the IRS. At least, that is the reason I have been told they use the voucher system.

One school district pays at the end of the season... and they pay through the association with no game vouchers, so the school has no clue for IRS reporting which umpires did which games!

If the IRS paper trail is the reason, in addition to the above example, you might ask why it is not used for many baseball umpires? Maybe the baseball umpire associations are stronger or have longer history and won't agree with the voucher system.

It is money management, pure and simple... keep the money as long as possible.