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Extended Unemployment Compensation Account
| How is the joint federal-state unemployment insurance program funded? Federal and state unemployment taxes fund the joint federal-state unemployment insurance program. Federal unemployment tax revenues fund accounts in the federal Unemployment Trust Fund (UTF) that pay for federal and state unemployment insurance program administration costs, the federal portion of extended benefits, and loans to State Unemployment Trust Funds. State unemployment tax revenues fund State Unemployment Trust Funds, which pay regular benefits and the state portion of extended benefits. Read more about unemployment taxes here. |
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The Extended Unemployment Compensation Account (EUCA) is an account within the federal Unemployment Trust Fund that pays for the federal government's share of extended benefits for the joint federal-state unemployment insurance program. The account is funded with Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) tax revenues.[1][2]
Extended Unemployment Compensation Account: Background
The EUCA was established through the Employment Security Amendments of 1970, which Richard Nixon signed into law on August 10, 1970. The legislation established the EUCA as a permanent account to help states pay for extended unemployment insurance benefits during periods of high state or national unemployment. The law required states and the federal government to each pay for half the cost of extended benefit payments.[3][4][5]
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Extended Unemployment Compensation Account: Funding
- See also: Federal unemployment tax
The Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA), passed in 1939, created a federal unemployment tax to fund the joint federal-state unemployment insurance program. The legality of FUTA was challenged and affirmed in Steward Machine Co. v. Collector of Internal Revenue (1937).
The federal unemployment tax, or FUTA tax, is collected by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and transferred to the Unemployment Trust Fund (UTF).
FUTA revenue funds the UTF's Employment Security Administration Account, which pays for federal and state unemployment insurance administration costs. The excess funds not needed for the Administration account fund the Extended Unemployment Compensation Account (EUCA) to pay the federal half of extended benefits. Excesses from the EUCA flow into the Federal Unemployment Account, which loans funds to State Trust Fund Accounts (STFA).[6]
STFAs are funded by state unemployment taxes and are used to pay regular unemployment benefits.
See also
- Unemployment insurance
- Unemployment insurance fraud
- Unemployment insurance fraud recovery
- Unemployment taxes
- Unemployment Trust Fund
- Unemployment filings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 2020-2021
- State government plans to end federal unemployment benefits related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 2021
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Footnotes
- ↑ Tax Policy Center, "Briefing Book," accessed May 25, 2021
- ↑ United States Department of Labor, "State UI Trust Fund Solvency Report," April 16, 2021
- ↑ Social Security Administration, "Employment Security Amendments of 1970," accessed November 8, 2021
- ↑ Social Security Administration, "Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1971," accessed November 8, 2021
- ↑ The American Presidency Project, "Statement on Signing the Employment Security Amendments of 1970," accessed November 8, 2021
- ↑ Washington State Legislature, "Washington State's Experience Rating System," accessed July 6, 2021
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