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Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.
In California, for instance, the state unemployment rate hit 5.3% in February, up 0.8% from a year ago and the highest in the nation. New Jersey's unemployment rate hit 4.8% in February, also up 0.8%.
Unemployment in the US by State (June 2023) The list of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate compares the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates by state and territory, sortable by name, rate, and change. Data are provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment publication.
The unemployment insurance program is a benefit for workers who have lost their jobs. The maximum duration of benefits has increased from 26 to 99 weeks in some states. Unemployment extensions across the U.S. are typically not a concern due to stringent policies that state unemployment agencies have enacted in recent years.
Your weekly unemployment payments are about to shrink considerably if you’re one of the millions of out-of-work Americans receiving Unemployment Insurance or Pandemic Unemployment Assistance.
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Companies with income up to $100,000, but greater than $50,000 pay a rate of 7.5% and companies with incomes of $50,000 or less pay a rate of 6.5%. [2] Under a budget deal reached on June 30, 2018, New Jersey's the rate will rise to 11.5% for companies with income over $1 million for the next two years.
In 2023 N.J. had some 63,000 filled job positions that it didn’t have a year ago, but that wasn't enough to keep the unemployment rate from hiking. In 2023, New Jersey saw the highest increase ...