Kansas House Bill 686 Recommended Action
Be certain to closely review the 2025 Experience Rating Notice received from your tax analyst here or from the Kansas Department of Labor, Unemployment Division.
Kansas HB 2570 Change Notification
There are multiple changes within Kansas HB 2570:
- Amends the definition of “Benefit Year” such that it refers to a specific day, “Sunday of the first week…”, rather than merely saying “the first day of the first week…”. It also strikes out language relating to an overlap of a benefit year or two benefit years.
- Changes the calculation for the claimant’s weekly benefit amount to a statewide average.
- Negative-rated employers will have an option to write off a portion of their negative account balance and then be assigned a rate in group N11 for the next three calendar years. Furthermore, negative-rated employers affected by the conditional write-off provision shall have the option to avoid a negative debt write-off and assignment to rate group N11 for the next three calendar years by submitting a voluntary contribution equal to or greater than the amount necessary to establish their account reserve ratio to an amount equal to or greater than -7.149% for the next calendar year.
- Fund Control Tables A and B have been adjusted for the year 2025 and ensuing calendar years.
Effective Date
Upon publication in the statute book.
