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Montana UI Employer’s Handbook Table of Contents
         
Introduction   Section 8: On-Line & Electronic Services  
  What is Unemployment Insurance?   1     UI4Employers 20
  Terms   1     Electronic Filing & Payments 20
              Internet Reporting & Payment: WOW 21
Section 1: Registration       Electronic Media Reporting 22
  Who pays Unemployment Insurance taxes   2      
  How to determine which employers are covered  

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Section 9: Benefits Eligibility and Charging

  
              Can a Claimant Work & Receive Benefits? 23
Section 2: New Employer Information "At a Glance"         Customary Hours 23
  Taxable wage base   3     Reason for Separation 23
Rates for new employers   3   Discharges 24
  Administrative Fund Tax   3     Re-Qualifying Wages 24
  What records do I have to keep?   3     Fact Finding 24
            What Employers Can Do To Help Insure a fair determination 25
Section 3: Reportable Wages and Employment     Job/Union Attached Status 25
  Wages or Not?   4     Work Search Requirements 25
Montana UI Wage & Employment Tax Chart   4-7     Job Offers/Refusals 26
  Independent Contractors   8     Notice of Potential Benefit Charges 26
  Officer Salaries   8     Charges are Relieved for Experience Rated Employers 26
  Multi-State Employees   9-10     Charging Determinations Differ from Non-Monetary Determinations 26
            How Non-Monetary Decisions Affect Charges 27
Section 4: Employer UI Tax Rates     Statement of Benefits Paid 27
            Employer address for benefit notices 27
Experience Rated Employer   11     What is the Privacy Act? 27
  Unemployment Insurance Tax Schedule & Rates   12        
  Experience Rating Transfers   13-14   Section 10: Important Phone Numbers  
  Reimbursable Employer   15     Ensuring Integrity 28
  Governmental Employer   15     What is a Claims Investigation Audit? 28
            What is Considered Fraud? 28-29
Section 5: Payments and Reports   What Information is Desired for reporting Fraud 29

When are Quarterly Reports due?   16     What happens to Claimants who commit fraud? 29
  Where do I get a Quarterly Report?   16     Collecting Overpayments 29
  How may I adjust a report?   16     Benefit Accuracy Measurements/Quality 29
  UI-5 Quarterly Wage Report   17   Quality Reviews 30
            Employer Investigations Audit 30
    State Unemployment Tax Act (SUTA) Dumping 30
Section 6: Miscellaneous Questions          
  Bankruptcy and Unemployment Insurance   18   Section 11: Important Phone Numbers  
  Contractor's certificate of coverage   18     Important Phone Numbers 31
  Appealing a department's decision   18     UI Field Representatives 31
            Other Agency Phone Numbers 32
Section 7: Penalties         Montana Job Service 33
  Penalty and Interest for Late Remittance   19      
  Other Penalties   19      
               

 

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