Unemployment Insurance: What’s Hot for 2010

Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET

With rising unemployment, the federal government has enacted legislation to enable extended benefits to unemployed workers. Many states have followed with coupling legislation; learn who can receive these state-extended benefits after their federal-extended benefits expire. What will all of this mean to employers in 2010?

• Find out how your benefit rate is calculated and what influences the economy will have on your rate calculations.
• Learn which states may increase their UI tax base or increase their mutualized tax. [States to look at: California, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Wisconsin with greatest percentage trust fund balance depletions.]

Federal law requires states whose UI Trust Funds go broke to borrow from the U.S. Treasury so that UI claimants will continue to receive their UI benefits. As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), interest owed on state borrowed funds was waived for 2009 and 2010, but will begin accruing on Jan. 1, 2011. When a state has outstanding federal loans for two years, employers lose the offsetting credit against FUTA taxes. Without the credit, employer costs will go up. States are borrowing. Find out which ones. Fixing this problem will more than likely mean significantly higher taxes for employers and unless resolved shortly, employers may at some point in many states lose their FUTA tax credit. Learn what this will mean for you as an employer.

Employers may often mistakenly misclassify their employees as independent contractors. UI laws lean toward control tests to determine UI employment. Learn what they are and how states are aggressively working these days to catch misclassifications.

Learning Objectives: This Webinar will give you what you need to know when you are making decisions to budget for your upcoming UI costs and tips specific to managing these functions. It will also cover which states are borrowing to cover trust fund deficits, which states may increase their wage limits and where rates may be going in 2010. Join noted payroll consultant Jerri LS Langer, with Cokala Tax Reporting Solutions, as she covers hot topics in unemployment insurance for 2010. In this session you will:

• Learn the fundamentals on how states come up with your UI rate.
• Explore who qualifies to make a claim for unemployment and how the extended benefits are calculated.
• Look at the state wage limits and discuss indexing principles; compare states that are not indexed.
• Discuss the potential increases in UI rates.
• Grow to understand how federal unemployment insurance laws (FUTA) interface with the state laws and how the offsetting credit is used to lower your rate costs. Consider what may happen if the federal credit is lost in your state.
• Look at what is left in planning after the SUTA dumping laws.
• Employee misclassification also has its impact…Consider the tests used for unemployment and what the states are doing to close gaps in misclassification.

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• Personal attention. Once you've registered, send your questions in advance to msottong@bna.com and they'll be included in the program. You'll also have a chance to ask your questions during the Webinar.
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