The Minnesota Unemployment Insurance (UI) Program conducts nearly all of its business electronically. Therefore, the program provides, at no charge, an electronic system for Minnesota employers to not only submit quarterly wage detail reports and make payments, but also allows an employer to:

• view and respond to benefit activity that directly affects their account, and;
• perform necessary maintenance to their account, such as:
  - address changes
  - changes in ownership
  - additions or deletions of reporting units

There is not a process in place for handling paper forms. This is just part of an ongoing effort to make the UI Program more efficient for the benefit of both employers and applicants. Electronic government is more cost efficient than are paper-based transactions.

Electronic self-service gives employers and applicants greater access to, and control of, their own UI accounts. It also provides more information to employers about unemployment benefits applications submitted by former employees affecting their unemployment accounts and/or tax rates.

Features of the online system:

Registration of a new employer account – online registration of a new Minnesota business, non-profit, or government entity. For Minnesota employers, registering online will result in the assignment of an 8-digit employer account number (4-digit reporting unit numbers when indicated), a User ID and a Password for use with the online system.

Account Maintenance – address changes, authorize an agent to securely access your account, view and maintain your reporting units.

Tax and Wage Detail Reporting – submit required quarterly wage detail reports, make adjustments to earlier reports, view all supplied quarterly report information.

Payment Information – complete electronic payments, view a history of payments and FUTA.

Benefits Paid Charge Information – view benefit information directly affecting your account.

User Maintenance – Assign new users with either ‘view only’ access or ‘update and submit’ access to account information and make changes to the access of current users.

Correspondence - Allows you to access PDF (Adobe Portable Document Format) versions of all system-generated documents for your UI employer account. These documents will have been delivered via US Mail to the mailing address shown on the account, or electronically via the online self-service system. A search may be performed using a range of dates, or a list of all available documents, sorted by date created, may be requested by submitting a search request with no search criteria specified. These documents may be printed or saved to the user’s computer for access at a later time.

Did you know that electronic messages are sent directly to employers' online accounts by UI staff?

View your messages by clicking on View Inbox found on the Employer Home page.

Related Self-Service System Links:

• Availability
• User Guide