June 2021 | Issue 3
Paid Leave: Get ready for quarterly reporting
Quarter 2 reports are due by July 31. Before you submit this report, log-in to your Paid Leave account and:
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Make sure your contact info is accurate.
- Review the status of your previously filed reports.
Finish or correct any reports for previous quarters before you submit a report for Quarter 2.
Check your status:
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Pending — You started manually submitting wages, but you haven’t submitted it yet.
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Submitted — You’ve uploaded your report, but the system hasn’t processed it yet.
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Rejected— You need to correct errors and submit a new report for the quarter.
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Processed — You successfully filed your quarterly report! Check the payments tab to see if you have a balance due or credits on your account before submitting more payments.
Depending on your payment method, it can take several days for payments to post to your account. Make sure you’ve reported for all quarters you had payroll. Remember: You do not have to file a report for any quarter you did not have payroll.
New to reporting? Use the premium calculator and test your files to get ready. You can also learn how to set up an employer agent to manage your reports. More resources are available in the Help Center and on Paid Leave's website.
WA Cares Fund: Why it matters
Seven in ten Washingtonians over the age of 65 will need long-term services and supports within their lifetimes. To pay for long-term care, many people must spend down their savings to qualify for financial support. By contributing a small amount from each paycheck while we’re working, we can all pay for long-term care when we need it. With WA Cares, people will have access to a lifetime benefit amount that, should they need it, they can use on a wide range of long-term services and supports.
Contributions
- Beginning January 2022, Washington workers will pay up to $0.58 per $100 of earnings.
- WA Cares benefits are entirely funded by worker premiums.
- Every employee contributes – employers do not.
- If you are self-employed, you can opt-in to the Trust.
Benefits
Eligibility
We’ve got your back. There’s plenty to know about WA Cares, and we’re committed to making your experience as easy as possible by providing the tools and information you need. Take a look:
- Visit our employer page to learn about WA Cares and what to expect.
- Check out our employer toolkit for helpful resources.
- Keep an eye out for articles in upcoming Employer Newsletters for regular WA Cares updates.
Coming soon! Our WA Cares team will begin hosting webinars in early autumn to walk you through the updates we’re making to Paid Leave’s reporting process so you can easily report once for both programs. Stay tuned!
Unemployment Insurance - Employer tax relief
With a goal of supporting businesses, the state Legislature is preventing more than $900 million in employment taxes from being charged in 2021 and another $1.8 billion in the future. Learn more on our employer news and updates page on esd.wa.gov.
Also new this year, legislators set aside $500 million in a UI relief account, directing relief to many of the hardest-hit industries. ESD is using this account to forgive or reimburse instead of charging taxable employers. Employers will see these adjustments on their December tax rate notice.
Read more about how legislature is helping employers with employment taxes for 2021 and beyond.
More employer news
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Taxable health care employers can request relief of charges for unemployment benefits for health care workers forced to quarantine. This applies to claims filed on or after July 4, 2021. Learn more on our Relief of benefit charges page.
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Employers terminating health care workers due to entering quarantine will be charged for any unemployment benefits paid to these former employees and any other base year employers would no longer be responsible for any benefit charges on these claims. This change takes effect July 4, 2021.
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SharedWork is a SharedWin: The SharedWork program offers 100 percent relief of benefit charges until Sept. 4, 2021. To learn more, call 800-752-2500 option 3.
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Adding security: ESD is adding two-step verification (also referred to as multi-factor authentication or MFA) to eServices. Read more about it on our webpage.
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Job search requirements are coming back: The governor suspended job search requirements at the start of the pandemic, but they’re going back into effect in early July! To remain eligible, claimants will be required to look for work and document approved job search activities each week.
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