Process Name:

Manually Assign Rate

Role:

•      Internal User

Objective(s):

•      To recalculate an individual employer’s Unemployment Insurance tax rate when a request is received.

•      To assign a new UI tax rate for an individual employer manually initiated by Internal User.

Before you begin:

•      Employer account must exist in SUITS.

•    Employer is subject to and liable for unemployment insurance.

•    Employer is eligible for a calculated UI tax rate.

•      A request to recalculate an employer’s UI tax rate has been received.

What happens next:

•      Employer has been manually assigned a new UI tax.

•      SUITS has recalculated any additional tax due for the years the rate was adjusted.

•      Employer has been notified of their new UI tax rate.

1. 

Log into Staff Portal.

SUITS displays Staff Portal.

2. 

Click Employer Services from the ‘Your Options’ menu.

SUITS displays the Employer Services Maintenance screen.

3. 

Click Employer Rate Maintenance hyperlink.

SUITS displays the Manage Annual Rate Maintenance screen.

4. 

Click Manually Assign Rate hyperlink.

SUITS displays Manually Assign Rate Maintenance screen.

5. 

Enter Employer ID.

6. 

Select Employer’s UI Contribution Rate(s) for the Year from the drop down menu.

If the quarter in which the UI tax rate should be adjusted doesn’t have an existing system-calculated rate record, Internal User clicks the New button.

7. 

Click the Search button.

SUITS displays The year’s quarters in the search results.

8. 

Select New Tax Class from drop down menu.

SUITS populates the Tax Rate to the Assign Rate form.

9. 

Select Process Code/Reason from drop down menu.

10.

Enter notes as needed or N/A.

11.

Click the Submit button.

•      SUITS updates new tax rate.

•      SUITS recalculates any tax due, interest and penalties for affected years by quarter.

•      SUITS updates the employer account.