§ 22-4-19-13 — Benefits; charges to experience accounts; change of rates; notice

(a) Where an employer makes an offer of
employment directly to a claimant, promptly giving written notice to
the department of the offer, or when the employer makes an offer of
employment in writing through the department, the commissioner, the
deputy, or an authorized representative of the state or the United States
employment service, which offer shall specify the claimant by name,
and when the claimant fails to register subsequent to the receipt of the
offer of employment by the department, the commissioner, the deputy,
or an authorized representative of the state or the United States
employment service, then a notice shall promptly be sent to the
employer of the claimant's failure to return and to register. If the
claimant, in the claimant's benefit period, again registers or renews and
continues the claimant's claim for benefits, the employer shall promptly
be provided with notice of the fact in order that the employer may have
an opportunity to renew and remake an offer of employment to the
claimant.
(b) Upon the filing by an individual of an additional claim for
benefits, a notice shall be promptly provided to an employer from
whose employ the individual claims to have been last separated.
(c) Upon the filing by an individual of an initial claim for benefits,
a notice shall be promptly provided to the base period employer or base
period employers and to the employing units including an employer
from whose employ the individual claims to have been last separated.
The computation of the benefit rights of the individual shall be made
as promptly as possible and, if the claim is deemed valid, then a notice
of benefit liability shall be provided to each employer whose
experience account is potentially chargeable with benefits to be paid to
the individual. The notice shall contain the date, the name and Social
Security number of the individual, the ending date of the individual's
base period, and the week ending date of the first week of the
individual's benefit year. The notice shall further contain information
as to the proportion of benefits chargeable to the employer's experience
account in ratio to the earnings of the individual from the employer and
shall advise the employer of the employer's right to protest the claim
and the payment of any benefits and of the place and time within which
the protest must be made in the form and manner prescribed by the
department and of the contents of the protest.
(d) Whenever a determination is made with respect to the validity
of any claim for benefits, or the eligibility of any claimant for benefits,
which involves the cancellation of wage credits or benefit rights, the
imposition of any disqualification, period of ineligibility or penalty, or
the denial of the claim, a notice shall promptly be provided to the
claimant and to each employer directly involved or connected with the
issue raised as to the validity of the claim, the eligibility of the claimant
for benefits, or the imposition of a disqualification period of
ineligibility or penalty, or the denial of the claim. The employer or the
claimant may protest a determination within the time limits and in the
manner as provided in IC 22-4-17-2 and upon the protest shall be
entitled to a hearing as provided in IC 22-4-17-2 and IC 22-4-17-3.
(e) Every employer shall be provided with a monthly report of
benefit charges which shall contain an itemized statement showing the
names of individuals to whom benefits were paid and charged to the
experience account of such employer, the weeks with respect to which
each individual received benefits, the amount of the benefits, and the
total amount of benefits charged to the employer's account during the
period covered by the report.
(f) Following the computation of rates of contribution for employers
for each calendar year, each employer shall be provided with notice not
later than ninety (90) days after the effective date of the rates, setting
out the employer's rate of contribution for the year, computed by the
department as of the preceding June 30, together with sufficient
information for the employer to determine and compute the amount of
a voluntary payment required from the employer in order to qualify for
and obtain a lower rate of contribution for the year and also advising
the employer of the length of time within which or last date upon which
the voluntary payment will be received or can be made.
Formerly: Acts 1947, c.208, s.2013; Acts 1951, c.307, s.4; Acts
1953, c.177, s.24; Acts 1957, c.261, s.4; Acts 1967, c.310, s.21. As
amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.114; P.L.11-1987, SEC.25;
P.L.18-1987, SEC.60; P.L.21-1995, SEC.101; P.L.177-2017, SEC.3;
P.L.122-2019, SEC.34; P.L.200-2025, SEC.27.