THE PART YOUR CFO WILL ASK ABOUT
The scholarship is an education benefit with its own code section — not a recruiting fee.
Employer education assistance under IRC §127 excludes up to $5,250 per employee per year from the employee's income (the 2026 figure, indexed for inflation after 2026) — tuition, and student-loan repayment after the hire, which Public Law 119-21 (2025) made permanent. Hire from targeted groups (veterans among them) and the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, IRC §51, has applied in past years — its authorization lapsed on December 31, 2025, and it is in hiatus pending reauthorization. We say so plainly, because your advisors will check. No money moves before the hire, and the amount never affects who you're matched with. The employee excludes it from income; whether and how you deduct it is your advisors' call under the ordinary business-expense rules.
EVERY FIGURE CITES ITS CODE SECTION ON THE ORDER ITSELF · YOUR ADVISORS SHAPE THE SCHEDULE
WHAT YOU SEE AFTER YOU ORDER
A ledger, not a mailbox: who's in your pipeline and how far along · what each seat's scholarship committed and what it returned · a receipt for every hire your accountants can hold. You see supply forming before you'd otherwise write a job post.