Iowa claim deadlines for employers

Note from the rules table

871 IAC 24.8(2)(a). Quote is one extracted line; the sentence begins "The employing unit that receives a Notice of Claim or Request for Wage and Separation Information" and continues "separation information that affects the individual's rights to benefits...". Iowa Code § 96.6(2) states the same period against the notice's ISSUANCE date, not its mailing date: "...the parties have ten days from the date of issuance of the notice of the filing of the claim to protest payment of benefits to the claimant." 24.8(2)(b) makes a protest timely if POSTMARKED within ten days and rolls a tenth day falling on a Saturday, Sunday or holiday to the department's next working day. A timely report of facts that might adversely affect the claimant's benefit rights counts as a protest.

Note from the rules table

NARROWER THAN IT LOOKS. Iowa Code § 96.7(2)(a)(6). Quote is one extracted line; the full provision is "An employer which has not been notified as provided in section 96.6, subsection 2, of the allowance of benefits to an individual, may within thirty days after the date of mailing of the notification appeal to the department for a hearing to determine the eligibility of the individual to receive benefits." The 30 days is available ONLY to an employer that never got the § 96.6(2) notice of claim, an employer that did get one is confined to the 10-day appeal. The notification referred to is the quarterly charge statement: "Within forty days after the close of each calendar quarter, the department shall notify each employer of the amount of benefits charged to the employer's account during that quarter." The appeal goes to an administrative law judge.

Note from the rules table

Iowa Code § 96.6(2). Quote is one extracted line; the provision reads "Unless the claimant or other interested party, after notification or within ten calendar days after notification was issued, files an appeal from the decision, the decision is final and benefits shall be paid or denied in accordance with the decision." countFrom is recorded as determination_date because the clock runs from when the decision notification was ISSUED/SENT, not from mailing or receipt, 871 IAC 24.9(3)(b) puts it as "within ten days after such notification was sent to such claimant's last-known address". 871 IAC 24.9(4)(b) extends the period to the department's next working day if the tenth day is a Saturday, Sunday or holiday. A further appeal from the ALJ decision to the Employment Appeal Board (or directly to district court) is fifteen days under § 96.6(3)(a).

UNUSUALLY BROAD: the statute says "This subparagraph division applies to both contributory and reimbursable employers, notwithstanding section 96.8, subsection 5." Most states deny reimbursable employers any relief; Iowa does not, for this ground. Quote is one extracted line; the sentence continues "without good cause attributable to the employer or to an individual who was discharged for misconduct in connection with the individual's employment, or to an individual who failed without good cause, either to apply for available, suitable work or to accept suitable work with that employer, shall not be charged to the employer's account, but shall be charged to the unemployment compensation fund."

Also applies to both contributory and reimbursable employers, notwithstanding § 96.8(5). Quote is one extracted line; the sentence continues "period employer at the time the individual is receiving the benefits, and the individual is receiving the same employment from the employer that the individual received during the individual's base period, benefits paid to the individual shall not be charged against the account of the employer."

Quote is one extracted line and this exact line also opens § 96.7(2)(a)(e) (the returning-servicemember layoff-replacement noncharge), so the quote alone does not disambiguate which subparagraph it came from. The disaster sentence continues "unemployment that is directly caused by a major natural disaster declared by the president of the United States, pursuant to the federal Disaster Relief Act of 1974...".

Quote is one extracted line; the provision continues "from charges shall apply to both contributory and reimbursable employers, notwithstanding section 96.8, subsection 5."