Unemployment Insurance
News
| Recession Likely to Boost Unemployment Insurance
Rates |
Accelerating job losses are expected to push the Massachusetts
Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund into the red during each of the next
three years, requiring federal loans and potential employer surcharges
to keep the system afloat, state officials acknowledge. Current
Massachusetts UI rates are already more than twice the national
average.
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| Stimulus COBRA Subsidy has Employers Seeing
Double |
Massachusetts employers will apparently be required to
continue funding the state Medical Security Plan for unemployed workers
while also paying a refundable 65 percent subsidy for COBRA benefits
included in the economic stimulus bill signed by President Obama.
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Issues
H. 2300, An Act Relative to Unemployment Insurance
Reform
AIM testimony in support of H. 2300, An Act Relative to Unemployment
Insurance Reform
H.4490;
the Governor’s bill entitled: An Act Providing for Job Creation by
Small Businesses
AIM comments on H. 4490, An Act
Providing for Job Creation by Small Businesses
H.1841 - An Act Eliminating the Workforce Training
Fund
AIM testimony in support of H.1841 - An Act Eliminating the Workforce
Training Fund
AIM testimony in support of H.1845 An Act Relative to
Non Discrimination Training in the Workplace
AIM supports H.1845 and urges the committee to give it a
favorable report.
Extended Unemployment Insurance for Massachusetts
Workers Involved in Qualified Job Training
AIM's testimony supporting extended unemployment
insurance benefits for training
An Act Relative to Reform of the Unemployment Insurance
System
Massachusetts still has one of the
highest UI rates in the nation, despite a rate freeze in 2008. AIM
legislation brings Massachusetts into line with UI practices in a
majority of other states by limiting the duration of benefits to 26
weeks, increasing work and wage requirements for benefit eligibility,
and updating rate tables to create equity in employer UI
payments.
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