unemployment insurance taxes

Michigan lawmakers have passed a bill that balances the state's budget with money from its unemployment insurance fund. The $10 million being transferred from the unemployment pool to the state budget…

Nebraska announced this week that Nebraska’s average unemployment insurance tax rate for employers will decline for the sixth straight year.  The average tax rate for 2017 will be 0.75 percent, a…

The Idaho Department of Labor has announced that Idaho's standard unemployment insurance tax rate for 2017 will decrease by 6.3 percent to 1.395 percent, down from 1.488 percent in 2016.…

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has announced that next year Maryland employers will continue to benefit from the lowest possible unemployment insurance tax rates allowed under state law. The Maryland Department of…

Following a recent trend across the United States, New Mexico has repaid the money it borrowed from the federal government to prop up its unemployment insurance fund. The New Mexico…

Kentucky is reducing its unemployment insurance tax rate for the first time since 2008. The reduction occurred because the Commonwealth returned its unemployment insurance trust fund to a healthy pre-recession…

Gov. Matt Bevin has announced that Kentucky is suspending the current unemployment insurance surcharge for contributing employers, effective immediately. The state’s approximately 91,000 employers have been paying a surcharge assessment…

Ohio's unemployment insurance system is back in the news this week. Right on the heals of reforms passed recently to reduce the program's debt owed to the federal government comes…

The U.S. Department of Labor has released its annual Significant Measures of State UI Tax Systems Report reviewing state unemployment insurance financing for 2015.  On average UI taxable employers paid…