Explore timely industry updates and practical guidance from UTCA’s experienced team. Our articles help employers understand unemployment insurance developments, strengthen claims and tax processes, reduce avoidable exposure and make more informed workforce and financial decisions.
SUI tax rates are set annually, but the work that influences them happens all year. Learn how claim activity, benefit charges, documentation and charge auditing can affect future unemployment tax exposure—and how UTCA helps employers take a more proactive approach to long-term cost control.
As municipalities and school systems enter the 2027 budget year, unemployment insurance deserves more than a carried-forward estimate. Learn how claim activity, benefit charges, separation patterns and internal processes affect UI costs
As some of our clients may be aware, the Massachusetts DUA is scheduled to follow through on their plans for modernization on May 6th, 2025. While this change has been in the planning stages for some time, it appears there are many employers that do not have...
Like many states, Connecticut was burdened by a high volume of Covid-19 claims, benefit charges and federal borrowing. Increases in backlogs and UI fraud have also been a struggle. To improve the state’s UI Trust Fund and build long term sustainability, Public Acts...
State administration, legislators and UI agencies are still coming to grips with the post-pandemic UI environment. Some are still wrestling with ways to deal with insolvent trust funds, while limiting harsh penalties to employers. Many of these changes are...
FRAUDULENT UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS BACK ON THE RISE While we are finally starting to experience some relief from the hardships of the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been an unfortunate resurgence in unemployment fraud. The Department of Justice remains actively involved in...
Don't Let Omitted Evidence Stand in The Way of a Successful Unemployment Hearing! It is commonly accepted that most State laws, internal unemployment department regulations and procedures are structured to favor former employees and increase the likelihood of awarding...
In a nutshell, "quiet quitting" is a philosophy of a growing number of younger workers (under 35) rejecting the notion that work must take over one's life and employees should go above and beyond what their job descriptions entail. This can take...
State administration, legislators and UI agencies are still coming to grips with the post-pandemic UI environment. Some are still wrestling with ways to deal with insolvent trust funds, while limiting harsh penalties to employers. Many of these changes are...
This past July, the State of New York created and issued the IAS, known as the Interest Assessment Surcharge to all UI tax paying employers. The rationale for doing so was to generate monies to pay the existing outstanding federal interest payment due at the end of...
