Requests for information from employers about unemployment insurance claims, the official text

2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
LRB-1806/1
MED:amn

2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 146
March 17, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives Maxey, Armstrong, Brooks, Dittrich, Franklin, Gundrum, Kaufert, Knodl, Melotik, Murphy, Mursau, O'Connor and Spiros, cosponsored by Senators Hutton, Nass, Tomczyk and Kapenga. Referred to Committee on Workforce Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment.

An Act to amend 108.09 (1) of the statutes; relating to: requests for information from employers about unemployment insurance claims.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current rules of the Department of Workforce Development, in order to determine unemployment insurance (UI) benefit claims, DWD may require employers to provide information about claimants’ employment separations, dates of work, wages and other payments, and other issues that may be disqualifying. This bill requires DWD to allow an employer no less than 12 business days to respond to an initial request for information about a UI benefit claim.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. 108.09 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
108.09 (1) Filing. Claims for benefits shall be filed pursuant to department rules. Each employer that is notified of a benefit claim shall promptly inform the department in writing as to any eligibility question in objection to such claim together with the reasons for the objection. The department shall allow an
employer no less than 12 business days to respond to an initial request from the department for information in response to a benefit claim. The department may also obtain information from the employee concerning the employee’s eligibility, employment or wages.
Section 2. Initial applicability.
(1) This act first applies to requests for information related to claims filed for the week beginning on or after the effective date of this subsection.
(end)