RefPay

[Andy]

Originally Posted by RadioBlue

We still get paid for HS games the old fashioned way around here: a check handed to you by the coach or AD prior to the first pitch.

As we did up until now...we have been told that it is a tax code issue.

Sports officials are considered vendors providing a service to the schools..it is illegal to pay a vendor prior to services being rendered.

Not sure I buy it, but haven't had time to research it.

According to our commissioner, our association negotiated hard with RefPay to make sure there would be no additional cost to the officials to get their money (not including the fee to cut and mail a check). However, upon seeing Cecil's post, it looks like RefPay was going to do that anyway...hmmm....