@shopper8 wrote:
I don't think anyone here really knows what they are talking about including me, about the taxes. Some of you are talking about regular unemployment that started in 1970. Yes taxes should be taken out state and federal, that is a question asked on the application. UPA is brand new, there are no past rules. Taxes are not being taken out, not in Massachusetts. I can't imagine UPA workers getting hit with taxes unknowingly.
You completely threw me off calling it UPA. It's PUA...and it's administered by the unemployment department. That same one from the 70's, and there is precedent. They did this before with the stimulus payments after the crash in 2008, so it's not really a brand new idea (It was just a smaller amount of $50 every 2 weeks). Only the concept of allowing IC's into unemployment is new.
Each state has their own way to interpret and administer this, but it's all under the umbrella of unemployment, and treated, and taxed, as such. CA doesn't tax unemployment, so for me, it's just the federal tax owed. It may be different for people in another state....