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Massachusetts Unemployment Insurance Posters

August 23rd, 2006 Posted by Emily

Unemployment insurance (UI) provides benefits to Massachusetts’ workers who are unemployed through no fault of their own. Your employees will learn what “through no fault of their own” means by reading the Massachusetts Unemployment Insurance posters. You are required by law to post Massachusetts Unemployment Insurance posters in an area that are clearly visible to your employees.

Funding for UI benefits comes from contributions paid by the state’s employers; no deductions are made from workers’ salaries. Employers pay quarterly contributions to the Massachusetts Division of Unemployment Assistance (DUA). Each employer’s contribution rate is based upon that employer’s experience with layoffs and the UI benefits paid to former workers who collected during the prior year. This is why it is important for you, as an employer, to protest claims for benefits on employees that do not truly qualify for the compensation, such as those that left their job voluntarily or were fired for good cause.

Eligible Massachusetts employers can choose to pay voluntary contributions. This program allows the state’s businesses to manage their unemployment insurance costs by paying additional contributions in order to lower their rate and reduce their UI contributions for the forthcoming calendar year.

Massachusetts employers covered by the Unemployment Insurance Law are also liable for a health insurance contribution. The funds from this contribution provide health insurance for eligible unemployment insurance claimants. This health insurance is called the Medical Security Plan, which is administered by DUA.

Health insurance contributions receipts are deposited in the Medical Security Trust Fund. They are not credited to employers’ UI accounts and are completely independent of the unemployment contribution trust fund.

DUA is responsible for the collection and processing of health insurance contributions which includes employer liability and wage determinations, as well as enforcement and employer auditing.

DUA is responsible for administering the UI program in Massachusetts. All decisions made by DUA staff must be made according to the law as described on the Massachusetts Unemployment Insurance posters.