Claims & Taxes

The mission of NH Employment Security's Unemployment Compensation Bureau is to pay benefits to eligible claimants temporarily unemployed or underemployed through no fault of their own, and to collect taxes from employers to fund these benefit payments. Each employer must file a Tax and Wage Report for every quarter after being found subject to the law. The report serves two purposes: to provide wage information about individual employees to be used in determining potential entitlement to benefits; and to establish the amount of taxable wages paid each quarter so that taxes due may be calculated and paid timely.

• Register as a new NH employer

• Pay Your Unemployment Compensation Tax
  • Magnetic Media
    Instructions for filing using magnetic media
    
    
  • Mail Tax and Wage Reports to:
    New Hampshire Employment Security
    Attn: Cashier
    PO Box 2058
    Concord NH 03302-2058
    
    
• Tax Rates
  

  As a result of the amount of unemployment benefits having been paid out and the solvency issue with the Unemployment Trust Fund, the department will continue to invoke the 1.0% surcharge to all employers for the first and second quarters of 2012. This 1.0% surcharge is comprised of the 0.5% Emergency Power under RSA 282-A:84-a. Depending on the level of the Trust Bund balance, it is anticipated that possibly one of the 0.5% surcharges may be removed for the September quarter filing period. Taxable Wage base also increased to $14,000 effective 1/1/2012.

  New Employer rate for the 2012-1 and 2012-2 quarters will be 3.7% (includes 1.0% surcharge).

  • Tax Rate Chart
  • Contact Information
    Tax reports/Tax rates/Delinquency notice questions
    (603) 228-4048 or (603) 228-4046
    
    
• Tax Audits
  The state and federal governments want to ensure compliance with Unemployment Insurance Law. The audit validates the correct wages are being reported as these wages are used to determine eligibility for unemployment benefits. Section RSA 282-A:117 of the New Hampshire Unemployment Tax law empowers the Commissioner and the Field Auditor as its authorized representative to examine records of employers.
  • Guide to Tax Audits
  • Field Agents
    
    
• NH Unemployment Insurance System (NHUIS)
  Register as a new employer or login as an existing employer
  • Claims Contact Information:
    Benefit Adjudication Unit
    PO Box 9506
    Manchester, NH 03108-9506
    Telephone: (603) 656-6631
  • Fax Notice of Claim forms to (603) 656-6558
  • Notice of Claim or Determination Questions (603) 656-6631
  • Benefit Charges Questions (603) 656-6606 or (603) 656-6608
    
    
  • NH WorkShare Program
    If you wish to submit a WorkShare Plan application, you will need to be a registered web user in the NH Unemployment Insurance System (NHUIS). You will need to use your login and password for your existing account to access and complete the application. If you do not currently have an online user account, please call (603) 656-6631 for assistance.
    • WorkShare User's Guide
      
• Law and Rule

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