Reinstate Employer Account Due to Purchase, Merger, Acquisition, or Assumption of Business

Background Information:

Process Name:

Reinstate Employer Account Due to Purchase, Merger, Acquisition, or Assumption of Business

Role:

•      The Employer

Objective(s):

•      To reactivate an Employer account, using the Employer Self-Service Portal, which had previously been inactivated.

Before you begin:

•      The Employer’s account is “Inactive”.

•      The Employer wants the account reactivated due to a purchase of business.

What happens next:

•      SUITS sends a Review Employer Reinstate Purchase work item to the UI agency to review the reinstatement request.

 

How to do it:

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User Action

System Response

Notes

1. 

Click the Account Maintenance menu item, from the Home screen, on the left navigation panel.

SUITS displays the Employer Maintenance screen.

 

2. 

Click the Reinstate Account link.

SUITS displays the Revive Employer Account Wizard.

 

3. 

Review the information on the screen.

 

 

4. 

Select the Yes or No radio button, in the Initial Reinstate Account panel, to answer the question:

“Is reinstate being requested as a result of the purchase of a business?”

 

•      Regardless of the answer to this question, a workflow will be triggered at the end of this process for staff to review.

 

•      If the Reinstate Request answer is “No” to the Purchase of Business question, SUITS creates a “Review Employer Reinstate” workflow.

 

•      If the Reinstate Request answer is “Yes” to the Purchase of Business question, SUITS creates a “Review Employer Reinstate Purchase” workflow.

5. 

Click the Next button.

SUITS displays the Enter Additional Reinstate Information screen.

 

6. 

Review the information on the screen.

 

If the User’s FEIN has changed since he suspended the Employer account, he must register as a new Employer.

7. 

Enter the Number of Employees  in the Verify Information panel.

 

 

8. 

Select an item from the Reason for Reinstatement dropdown menu.

SUITS displays the additional field: Date Wages Resumed.

 

9. 

Enter the Date Wages Resumed.

 

 

10.

Review your NAICS Code.

 

 

11.

Click the Change NAICS Code button, if needed.

SUITS displays the Change NAICS Code screen.

This is an optional step. This step will allow the User to change the business classification.

12.

Select an item from the 1st Classification dropdown menu that best describes the function of the business.

SUITS populates the options within the 2nd Classification dropdown menu based on your selection from the 1st Classification menu.

 

13.

Select an item from the 2nd Classification dropdown menu that best describes the function of the business.

SUITS populates the options within the 3rd Classification dropdown menu based on your selection from the 2nd Classification menu.

 

14.

Repeat the steps and select an option from all the Classification menus.

 

 

15.

Click the Next button.

SUITS returns to the Enter Additional Reinstate Information screen.

 

16.

Enter Notes (not required).

 

The Notes field allows the business to communicate any other information to the agency during the reinstate process.

17.

Click the Next button.

SUITS displays the Summary screen.

 

18.

Review the information.

 

To change any information:

•      Click the Previous button.

•      Return to the screen on which you want to change information.

•      Update the information.

When you are done, click Next to return to the Summary screen.

19.

Read the Certification statement.

 

 

20.

Select the checkbox corresponding to the Certification Statement.

 

SUITS requires you to select this checkbox before proceeding.

21.

Click the Next button.

SUITS displays the Confirmation screen.

 

22.

Read the information on the Confirmation screen.

 

SUITS displays the statement:

“Your request to reinstate your South Carolina Unemployment Insurance (UI) account has been received but cannot be processed due to the following: You have indicated that the reinstatement is requested as a result of the purchase of another SC business. If you have additional concerns, submit your questions here.”
(“here” is a hyperlink to Employer Request Information function of the Portal.)

23.

Click the Finish button.

SUITS displays the Employer Maintenance screen.

 

24.

 

SUITS sends a Review Employer Reactivation work item to the agency.

The agency must review the request before the Employer is reinstated.