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Montana UI Employer’s Handbook Table of Contents
         
Introduction     Section 7: Penalties  
  What is Unemployment Insurance?   1     Penalty and Interest for Late Remittance 19
  Terms   1     Other Penalties 19
 
Section 1: Registration         Section 8: On-Line & Electronic Services  
  Who pays Unemployment Insurance taxes   2     UI4Employers 20
  How to determine which employers are covered  

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Electronic Filing & Payments

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              Internet Reporting & Payment: WOW 21
              Electronic Media Reporting 22
 
Section 2: New Employer Information "At a Glance"       Section 9: Benefits Eligibility and Charging  
  Taxable wage base   3     Reason for Separation 23
  Rates for new employers   3     Discharges 23
  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 24
Section 3: Reportable Wages and Employment         Job/Union Attached Status 24
  Wages or Not?   4     Job Offers/Refusals 25
  Montana UI Wage & Employment Tax Chart   4-7     Notice of Potential Benefit Charges 25
  Independent Contractors   8     Charges are Relieved for Experience Rated Employers 25
  Officer Salaries   8     Charging Determinations Differ from Non-Monetary Determinations 25-26
  Multi-State Employees   9-10     How Non-Monetary Decisions Affect Charges 26
    Statement of Benefits Paid 26
Section 4: Employer UI Tax Rates         Employer address for benefit notices 26
  Experience Rated Employer   11     Claims Investigations 26
  Unemployment Insurance Tax Schedule & Rates   12     Reporting Potential Fraud 26
  Experience Rating Transfers   13-14     Claims Investigation Audit 27
  Reimbursable Employer   15     Information that is Needed if Selected for a Claims Investigation Audit 27
  Governmental Employer   15     Overpayments 27
    Privacy 28

Section 5: Payments and Reports		         Benefit Accuracy Measurement/Quality Control 28
  When are Quarterly Reports due?   16     Other Quality Reviews 28
  Where do I get a Quarterly Report?   16        
  How may I adjust a report?   16   Section 10: Important Phone Numbers  
  UI-5 Quarterly Wage Report   17     Important Phone Numbers 29
    UI Field Representatives 29
Section 6: Miscellaneous Questions         Other Agency Phone Numbers 30
  Bankruptcy and Unemployment Insurance   18     Montana Job Service 31
  Contractor's certificate of coverage   18        
  Appealing a department's decision   18        
               

 

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