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.
Since the state's Workforce Solutions Department launched a strategy that marries predictive analytics with behavioral science techniques, it has seen a 40 percent reduction in the likelihood to commit fraud. Find out how:...
Independent Contractors can be an area of risk for unemployment too. Find out why: http://www.sbnonline.com/article/caution-using-independent-contractors/
MADISON — Governor Scott Walker on Wednesday, May 4th approved a rule requiring certain Wisconsinites receiving unemployment insurance benefits to pass a drug test....
Link for employers to access unemployment tax information, State and Federal tax information, publications and forms.workforcesecurity.doleta.gov/unemploy/agencies.asp
Senate Bill 15 was signed by Governor Pat McCrory on September 10, 2015. The law requires claimants who are seeking unemployment benefits to make additional weekly job contacts beginning January 2016. The law increases the minimum number of job contacts an unemployed...
Unemployment Tax Control Associates Celebrates 25 Years in Business SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Unemployment Tax Control Associates, Inc. (UTCA), a national unemployment insurance service provider based in Springfield, Mass., with an office in Boston and Houston, Texas,...
Unemployment Tax Control Associates (UTCA) recently hosted its 18th Annual Client Update at the Sheraton Monarch Place Hotel and Conference Center in Springfield, MA. Always a crowd favorite, UTCA returned to its interactive game show format. “Are You Smarter...
In a recent congressional report by the Committee of Ways and Means, the effect of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program is examined, and the data is staggering. Historical periods of extended benefits and record-breaking costs added to the national...
On 4/15/14, Governor Deval Patrick signed an Unemployment Insurance rate freeze for 2014, eliminating a $500 million increase on employers that took effect January 1. This bill is a stand-alone measure that does not take up any system reforms but addresses the more...
The EUC temporary extension bill that has been debated for months was finally brought to a vote on the floor of the US Senate as an amendment to HR 3979 late yesterday and passed on a vote of 59 to 38 with three abstentions. It was significant that the vote on the...
