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.
If you're an employer, the stakes just got higher! Consistent with UTCA’s ongoing efforts to keep our clients current on increasing UI claims costs, we have prepared a quick reference document of nationwide maximum claim potential liability. Generally, traditional...
Constant Change in Nationwide UI Landscape Pandemic-fueled federal and state mandates have drastically affected Unemployment law, policy and regulations since March of 2020. As state administration, legislators and UI agencies come to grips with the...
MASSACHUSETTS SENATE PASSES UI SOLVENCY BILL The Massachusetts State Senate followed the lead of the House of Representatives and passed the bill H3702 addressing some immediate relief to MA UI tax paying employers, all of whom were negatively and substantially...
What’s Happened? It’s been an action-packed two weeks for UTCA! Many Massachusetts employers are still coming to terms with the grim unemployment tax escalations they are experiencing. If you are not yet aware of the issue, you can read our previous post here. We...
Each year, Massachusetts “tax paying” employers (not Reimbursable employers) pay an annual statutory UI Solvency Assessment. The solvency rate used in the calculation of each company's UI experience for 2021 was announced today and is quickly reverberating through the...
Taxing Times Massachusetts Bill H.90 "An Act financing a program for improvements to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund and providing relief to employers and workers in the Commonwealth" is currently pending Governor Charlie Baker's approval. The bill has gained a...
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 Act has passed. You've now sifted through all the articles about the third stimulus check and I'm sure your mind goes to the next most exciting question.....which unemployment provisions were affected?! Many of the provisions...
As employers continue to navigate through the Covid-19 pandemic, the CARES Act has provided a tremendous amount of optimism. UTCA has been diligently providing insight to clients, non-clients, human resources and industry associations as they all pose their unique...
3-30-20 The CARES Act is now Law. The challenge of implementing the Unemployment related provisions to make payments is now beginning for the federal and state governments as the expectation is it is implemented quickly. The additional COVID-19 related payments are...
We’ve seen state unemployment agencies transition to phone hearings as opposed to “live” or in-person hearings, for some time now. Amidst the COVID-19 scare and social distancing guidelines, states such as Massachusetts have limited the format to telephone-only. While...
