I agree with you! The reason I had them under two different 'names' with the same SS# was because I had to handle the UC Taxes differently because they have a 'working wage' as well as an 'elected wage'. Yes, as you mentioned, I do have YEARS of payroll history going back to doing it this way since 2005. Those elected employees that also had working wage always got two W2's, but that was never a problem.

     I spoke with Intuit QB Payroll Chat and he was able to help me make them active again. Now I know how to do that. But the only way I can think to fix this moving forward is to change the Payroll Tax under 'working wage' Employee, then recreate each payroll check for this year, next delete them under the duplicate 'elected' Employee, and finally make that one INACTIVE. Then going forward, I have to remember to manually change the Payroll Tax every time I do their elected salaries. If I forget, then my UC Tax will be incorrect.

     Now I'm just HOPING that this will work. Your thoughts?