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November 1, 2007
The Minnesota Unemployment Insurance Program launched a online self-service system Thursday.
The system is touted as making benefit applications easier and payments more frequent for the unemployed.
Under the new system, benefit applicants can request benefit payments weekly or every two weeks.
Employers will be able to use the site to complete all of their unemployment insurance business, including taxes and benefits. The system will give notice to a business when a former employee applies for unemployment benefits, enabling the employer to respond electronically to requests for information, which is anticipated to reduce response time and increase the accuracy of benefit payments.
The $42.6 million project began in 2001, with the first phase implemented in June 2005.
In 2006, more than $680 million in unemployment benefits were paid to over 175,000 Minnesotans.
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