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A Chandler, Arizona HR and PEO company that in June 2026 said it had persuaded the IRS to split aggregate Employee Retention Credit claims filed by PEOs, so the approved parts could be paid while disputed parts went to appeal. It put the PEO industry at more than 500 firms serving over 230,000 businesses.

Identity and role

Vensure Employer Solutions, of Chandler, Arizona, describes itself as "a leading provider of HR/HCM technology, managed services, and global business process outsourcing." It operates as VensureHR. Kara Childress is president and chief financial officer of VensureHR, according to the company's June 24, 2026 release.

Pandemic-relief role

Professional employer organizations (PEOs) filed their clients' Employee Retention Credit (ERC) claims on aggregate returns. "Under the previous process, ERC claims filed by PEOs were grouped together, meaning a single audit could stall payments for hundreds or even thousands of companies at once, with some claims dating back to early 2021," Vensure said.

In June 2026 the company announced that "following direct engagement with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Vensure helped enable a bifurcated approach that allows approved claims to be paid while disputed portions move through the appeals process." Childress said the old process created "unnecessary barriers for businesses that had done everything right." The release says the change affects an industry of "more than 500 firms serving over 230,000 businesses nationwide," and that it builds on Vensure's 2025 lobbying in Washington over a backlog "that at the time included nearly 600,000 unprocessed" claims.

Those are the company's descriptions of its role. The release does not cite an IRS notice or guidance, and we found no IRS announcement of the bifurcation process to set beside it. The IRS's February 2025 Chief Counsel memo on aggregate filings, PMTA 2025-01, addresses a related question: whether an aggregate return filed without a Schedule R allocating the credit among clients is a valid return for them. It concluded that it is not.

No enforcement action against Vensure over the ERC appears in the records we reviewed.

Where they are now (2025–2026)

The June 2026 release is the last public statement on the ERC from Vensure we found.

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