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Contact UIA For Employers

Contact UIA For Employers

The Office of Employer Ombudsman (OEO) is committed to making your interactions with Unemployment Insurance positive and productive.

OEO answers employer questions about benefits eligibility, protests and appeals, employer accounts and other general unemployment and tax-related questions.

If you have questions, call OEO at 1-855-484-2636, then select option 4.

 

Submit a support request for UIA Tax

Contact the Tax and Employer Services Division

Tax Status Unit

Phone: 855-484-2636 option 4 | EmployerLiability@Michigan.gov

  • Register a new business
  • Notice of Change for Sale/Transfer/Discontinuance of a Business
  • Protest/Appeal of a tax status issue
  • Reimbursing employer registration
  • Conversion - reimbursing employer to contributing
  • Effective liability date/amend liability date
  • Schedule A
  • Location accounts
  • Inactivate/reactivate UIA account
  • Consolidation/merger of accounts
  • Seasonal designation of employer
  • FEIN discrepancy

Tax Maintenance Unit 

Phone: 855-484-2636 option 4 | TaxSupport@Michigan.gov

  • Tax rates
  • Taxable Wage Base
  • 940 certification
  • Protest/appeal of tax rate
  • Transfer payments - verify payments
  • Remove quarters after inactive date
  • Audit adjustments
  • Refund request and processing of refunds

Tax Collections Unit 

Phone: 855-484-2636 option 5 | Fax: 517-763-0223

  • Determination of assessment
  • Determination of willful neglect
  • Payment plans - payoff balance
  • Tax lien/discharge of lien
  • Protest of assessments
  • Request for waiver of penalties - adjustment requests
  • Payoff amount of a legal judgment
  • Clearance of account

Tax Enforcement Unit

Phone: 855-484-2636 option 5 | Fax: 517-763-0223

  • Notice to withhold/bank levy/garnishment and disclosure of NTW
  • Treasury Offset Program (TOP) - federal tax intercepts
  • Adjustment requests
  • Payment plans
  • Legal judgment/settlements

Benefit Enforcement Unit

Phone: 866-500-0017 option 4 | BEU@Michigan.gov

  • Employer questions re: claimant wage garnishments
  • Claimant - garnishment of wages
  • Administrative wage garnishment
  • Voluntary wage garnishment
  • Tax repayment letters
  • Wage garnishment payments

Benefit Overpayment Collection

Phone: 866-500-0017 option 4

  • Benefit overpayments (claimant restitution)
  • Claimant Treasury Offset Program (TOP) - Federal income tax intercept
  • Monthly statements
  • Court prosecution collection accounts

Field Audit

UIA-FieldAudit-Employer@Michigan.gov

  • Audit of employer books and records
  • Determinations of services and wages
  • Audit adjustments
  • Claims investigations
  • Misclassification of wages/special investigations

Reimbursing Employers (Schools, Municipalities, Government Agencies, 501c3, churches, non-profits, etc.)

Phone: 855-484-2636 option 5 | Fax: 517-763-0223

  • Determination of assessments
  • Billing notices
  • Payment plans
  • Tax liens/discharge of lien
  • Clearance of account

Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC)

Phone: 800-482-2959 | Fax: 313-456-2132 | WOTCUnit@Michigan.gov

  • The Work Opportunity Tax Credit program is a federal business initiative designed to increase employment opportunities for people who typically experience certain barriers to employment, such as veterans, public assistance recipients, or ex-felons.

Fraud/Identity Theft Hotline

Phone: 855-484-2636 option 1

  • UIA is committed to protecting the integrity of Michigan’s UI program by aggressively pursuing anyone who commits fraud. 
  • As employers, you can help save millions of dollars in fraudulent payments by identifying suspected fraud. In many cases, you may be the first to have information that unemployment fraud is occurring.

Employer Bankruptcy

Phone: 855-484-2636 option 7

  • Employer Bankruptcy (Chapter 7, 11, 13)
  • Municipality Bankruptcy (Chapter 9)
  • Employer receivership claims

Claimant Bankruptcy

Phone: 866-500-0017 option 5

Work Share

Phone: 1-855-484-2636 option 6

  • Michigan’s Work Share program allows employers to restart their business and bring employees back from unemployment. 
  • Employers can bring employees back with reduced hours - while employees collect partial unemployment benefits to make up a portion of the lost wages.