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Key takeaways. If your state overpays your unemployment insurance benefits, you’ll typically need to repay by a set due date, file an appeal or request an overpayment waiver with the state, or ...
In a memo released yesterday, the U.S. Labor Department states that workers who were asked to repay unemployment benefits received through the CARES Act might be able to get a refund, although it...
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.
As part of the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 enacted on December 17, 2010, the employee Social Security tax rate is reduced from 6.2% to 4.2% for wages paid during the year 2011 and 2012. The employer Social Security tax rate and the Social Security Wage Base were not directly impacted by this ...
Some of the overpayments were the result of massive fraud during the COVID pandemic in 2020 and 2021, mostly in the federally funded Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program — an amount ...
Before 2011, every state in the country offered as many as 26 weeks of unemployment insurance, according to a 2022 Congressional Research Service report, but the Great Recession changed everything.
The Unemployment Insurance Division collects payroll taxes from employers and facilitates proper distribution of benefits to unemployment claimants. This includes adjudicating disputes, detecting fraud, collecting benefit overpayments, and administering the state's New Hire Reporting program. [2] Subdivisions include: Quality Control
Democratic lawmakers are calling for the state Department of Labor to stop trying to get money back from thousands of workers who lost their jobs in the pandemic but who may have been overpaid in ...