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Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.
May 28—Pennsylvania's online compensation system is getting a long-overdue overhaul. The system used by the Department of Labor and Industry is four decades old, making it outdated, according to ...
The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry is a cabinet-level agency in the Government of Pennsylvania.The agency is charged with the task of overseeing the health and safety of workers, enforcement of the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code, vocational rehabilitation for people with disabilities, and administration of unemployment benefits and Workers' compensation.
Federal social insurance taxes are imposed on employers [35] and employees, [36] ordinarily consisting of a tax of 12.4% of wages up to an annual wage maximum ($118,500 in wages, for a maximum contribution of $14,694 in 2016) for Social Security and a tax of 2.9% (half imposed on employer and half withheld from the employee's pay) of all wages ...
The federal government taxes unemployment compensation as if the payments were wages. That, on its own, can be a gut punch for someone who is out of work. But there's also a double whammy for most ...
The Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) this week announced that the Shapiro Administration has continued on its work to eliminate barriers to Pennsylvania's Unemployment Compensation (UC) system ...
Taxes under State Unemployment Tax Act (or SUTA) are those designed to finance the cost of state unemployment insurance benefits in the United States, which make up all of unemployment insurance expenditures in normal times, and the majority of unemployment insurance expenditures during downturns, with the remainder paid in part by the federal government for "emergency" benefit extensions.
Pennsylvania's civilian labor force — the estimated number of residents working or looking for work — was up 6,000 over the month due to a gain in resident employment while unemployment was ...