Unemployment benefits are paid by the state which in turn collects its funds from the business. The employee does not pay into the fund.
Depending on where you live each employer has to pay a certain percentage of your gross pay for unemployment. Find out what that percentage is and multiply it to your total gross pay and that will be the amount. They usually pay this to the state once each quarter. In 2003 in Texas, the "minimum tax" paid by nearly 278,000 employers was 0.67 percent of the first $9,000 of an employee's wages, or $60.30 per worker. This year's minimum tax rate is only 0.26 percent, or $23.40 a head. Texas will not have to pay Federal taxes until 2011, currently is being paid thru a statewide Bond issue. There is both a federal and a state unemployment tax in Texas that employers pay.
No. If you earned wages..you earned wages.
Yes. Whether paid while working or liquidated and paid out at separation.
No, you must have been paid wages by someone else.
Federal Unemployment tax (FUTA) is levied on the employer at 6.2% of wages paid up to $7000 per employee per year.
To receive unemployment in Oregon, one must have worked 500 hours of subject employment as a requirement. The amount of unemployment received will depend on the wages that were paid by the employer.
FUTA, or the Federal Unemployment Tax Act tax, is calculated based on a percentage of the first $7,000 of each employee's wages. The standard FUTA tax rate is 6.0%, but employers can receive a credit of up to 5.4% for state unemployment taxes paid, effectively reducing the rate to 0.6%. Employers are responsible for paying this tax, which funds unemployment benefits at the federal level. It's important to note that FUTA is not withheld from employee wages.
This would probably depend on 2 things. First, was he self-employed (contractors usually are and therefore not eligible), and second, was there unemployment taxes paid by the company to the state of Texas (if not, Texas is not liable).
No. No state deducts unemployment funds from employee's paychecks. Payroll taxes paid to the state by the business funds unemployment benefits.
This depends on several factors. 1) Whether you were paid wages; 2) Whether the organization paid into the state's unemployment fund through payroll taxes; 3) Whether the reason you were fired was through your own fault or not, etc.
No, you do not get paid for the waiting week for unemployment.
First, it is possible for someone receiving unemployment benefits to have a job. It depends on what they are paid, what the benefit amount is, whether it's temporary, etc. So they may or may not be violating the law. Check with the Texas unemployment office with the facts and they will decide.