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Your Employment Security Department: current news and history, programs we manage, definitions of our terms, how to contact us and more.
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Payment delays
Due to technical issues, unemployment benefit payments will be delayed this week. Customers can expect a delay of 1 to 2 business days for payments to process. We apologize for the inconvenience and frustration this may cause. Please check back for updates.
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- Estimate your benefit
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Reports and research
- Monthly employment report
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- Hire new employees
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Employer requirements
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Quarterly reports
- How to file your quarterly tax and wage reports
- Importing wage files in the Employer Account Management System (EAMS)
- Bulk filing in Employer Account Management Services (EAMS)
- How to request access to locked services in the Employer Account Management System (EAMS)
- Independent contractors
- Unemployment coverage for corporate officers
- Professional employer organizations
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Unemployment taxes
- Employers' guide to paying taxes
- How we determine tax rates
- Penalties for late or incomplete tax payments and reports
- Appeal an unemployment tax decision
- Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) certification or recertification
- Unemployment trust fund
- Voluntary Contribution program: Lower your tax rate
- Reimbursable employers
- About eServices for employers
- What to expect during an audit
- When a worker files for unemployment
- Layoffs and employee notifications
- Employee records you need to keep
- Closing your business tax account
- Report someone who refuses a job offer
- Reporting new and rehired employees
- Employer posters, forms and information
- Employer Newsletter
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Quarterly reports
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About us
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Who we are and what we do
- Our mission and vision
- Our history
- Programs we manage
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- Laws and regulations
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Rulemaking
- Our rulemaking process
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Unemployment insurance benefits rules
- Benefit charging
- Commissioner’s Review Office Filings
- Conditional payments
- Corporate officer clean up
- Employer address change requirement
- Health care workers
- Protecting workers facing unemployment due to businesses closing or mass layoffs
- Registration for Work
- Underlying health conditions
- WAC 192-150-110 (“Mandatory military transfers—RCW 50.20.050 (2)(b)(iii)”) amendment
- Work search
- Reinstating withdrawn appeals
- Public health emergencies
- Failure to respond
- Transportation network companies
- Officers of employee-owned cooperatives
- Standard occupational classification reporting for federally recognized tribes
- Expanding good cause for voluntarily quitting employment
- Public records procedures
- Wildfires and other disasters: Permanent rulemaking
- WAC 192-220-070 cross-reference clean-up
- Cross-program payment allocation
- Responding to requests for information
- Wildfires and other disasters: Emergency rulemaking
- Standard occupational code reporting
- Part-time quits
- Unemployment benefits while on a leave of absence
- Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) rulemaking
- Emergency rulemaking related to COVID-19
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Past rulemaking activity
- Domestic violence definition for unemployment claims
- Benefit certification
- Lump sum retirement deductions
- Hours of availability and suitable work (2021)
- Tax rates, benefit charging and availability for work technical corrections
- Suitable work for Extended Benefits
- Leave of absence
- COVID-19 unemployment account
- Delinquent tax rates
- Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN)
- Late petitions for review
- Standby
- New computer system implementation
- Job search monitoring and standby
- Claimant handbook
- Crediting employer accounts and penalties for incomplete registration
- Late wage reports
- Maritime services
- Notices and petitions for review
- SharedWork (2013)
- Tax settlements: Equity and good conscience
- Automated scheduler
- Backdating requests for standby
- Claim center telephone hours
- Electrical apprentices
- Expedited rule-making: Eliminating obsolete language
- Hours of availability
- Out of country
- Reasonable assurance
- Timely responses
- Paid Leave rulemaking
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- Scams and fraud
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- Contact us
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- Our partners
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Who we are and what we do