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Unemployment FAQs for Employers

Frequently Asked Questions for employers and employer service providers relating to unemployment taxes, reporting, collections and more.

  • New Hire Reporting - Employer reporting of newly hired employees.
  • Quarterly Wage Reporting - Employer reporting of quarterly wages.
  • Tax and Account Reporting - Employer tax questions.
  • Tax Collection - Understanding the delinquent account process and payment questions.
  • Fiscal Agent - Registering employers, reporting issues and closing employer accounts.
  • ACH Debit Payments - Payment option for employers to pay unemployment insurance taxes.
  • Financing/Tax Rate - How UI program is financed and how an employer tax rate is determined.
  • Payrolling - When a legal entity reports wages paid to another legal entity's employees as its own.
  • Fraud - Reporting benefit fraud and avoiding penalties.
  • Hearings - About the hearing process when appealing a formal determination.