U.C. Consultants offers a comprehensive set of services all designed to lower your company’s costs of unemployment insurance.

Claims Administration

  • Protest Initial claims
  • Employ technically precise terminology to avoid unnecessary administrative problems
  • Protest/manage determinations
  • Ensure timely and concise responses

Actuarial Services

  • Compute liability and maximum potential costs for each claim
  • Verify base period wages
  • Protest erroneous charges
  • Initiate all correspondence
  • Account for every dollar in benefit liability
  • Track benefit charges
  • Review last three years payroll for tax rate purposes and file for refunds where applicable
  • Review acquisition and merger impact on unemployment tax rates and file for refunds where applicable

Hearing Representation

  • Coordinate hearing arrangements
  • Select appropriate witness(es) for relevant testimony
  • Elicit accountability through pertinent documentation and verbal accounts from affected personnel
  • Handle appeals at the Commission Review level, including submission of statements as well as oral arguments, when prudent

Management Reporting

  • One-page summary statement citing total claims activity and cost allocations
  • Individual summary statements by department and departmental comparison
  • Detailed departmental claims activity reports
  • Cost per claim, per employee, current and paid-to-date
  • Preventive statistical analysis reports
  • Custom reports to address individual needs

Policy Review & Legislative Monitoring

  • Evaluate unemployment compensation statutes, existing cost levels, payroll procedures and personnel policies
  • Examine separation data for accuracy and complete documentation
  • Furnish federal and state law updates—provide new guidelines on exemptions and exclusions
  • Research topical issues affecting unemployment compensation and submit white papers describing positions and options

Supervisory Training

  • Conduct educational seminars for supervisory personnel
  • Online e-learning and reference for new supervisors
  • Custom workshops to the particular needs of a department or an overall unit

Consulting

  • Daily consultation available by phone, e-mail and FAX

Tax Credit Services

  • WOTC (Work Opportunity Tax Credit)
  • WWC (Welfare to Work Credit)
  • Federal Empowerment Zone Credits
  • Enterprise Communities Credits
  • State Tax Credits
  • Renewal Communities






















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