How much in DC does your unemployment tax goes up if your nanny files for unemployment

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have any experience with how much an employer's tax rate for unemployment goes up in DC if the nanny files for unemployment and is granted it. How hard is it to fight an unemployment claim?

[Anonymous]

It's a minimal increase. Why would you fight her unemployment?

[Anonymous]

Why are you trying to fight it? Was she fired for cause? Or did you let her go for whatever reason, but will now allege some kind of cause?

[Anonymous]

This is what some of them do to the person they entrusted their child to.

[Anonymous]

department of labor decides who can claim. You can research it yourself. Pretty easy to get if you qualify for it.

[Anonymous]

Unless you have filed a criminal report, you have a weak case, OP.

[Anonymous]

Don't know about DC. In VA it goes pretty close to max of 6.85% depending on the length go time the nanny collects benefits. You can research the maximum number in DC. Unless there is a clear cause, with written warnings that nanny signed, and explicit evidence that nanny did something clearly wrong (e.g. Left children unattended with a knife and a fire burning next to them) it is very hard to get the claim dismissed. My friend had a video of a nanny watching TV while a baby was SCREAMING upstairs for hours at end with the monitor on -- well the deputy did not find that a cause because there was no warning to the nanny that watching TV for hours was unacceptable, child was safe and the nanny LOVED the child and that was her way of teaching something to the baby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't know about DC. In VA it goes pretty close to max of 6.85% depending on the length go time the nanny collects benefits. You can research the maximum number in DC. Unless there is a clear cause, with written warnings that nanny signed, and explicit evidence that nanny did something clearly wrong (e.g. Left children unattended with a knife and a fire burning next to them) it is very hard to get the claim dismissed. My friend had a video of a nanny watching TV while a baby was SCREAMING upstairs for hours at end with the monitor on -- well the deputy did not find that a cause because there was no warning to the nanny that watching TV for hours was unacceptable, child was safe and the nanny LOVED the child and that was her way of teaching something to the baby.

It's deplorable that anyone would call such a person a caregiver, much less a "nanny".

Your friend hired a sitter, literally.
Not a nanny.

[Anonymous]

OP here. I have a good reason to ask, and ample reason to fire for cause. That said, the nanny has many other good qualities, and I hate to see anyone not getting paid.

I had researched the maximum rate in DC (7.00%) -- but there is nothing I could find on-line that was helpful in terms of how much the rate would actually go up for an household employer with one employee. The baseline rate is 2.7%. The DC tax office just says that it assigns and "experience rate" to the employer, based on, among other things, how much tax it has paid, how long employees stay, etc. The "experience rate" sticks with you for years. I read the information to say that the tax is based only on the fist $9000 paid annually.

Anybody who has practical experience with this in DC? I have heard of a couple of Virginia stories (including one where the family successfully fought it, and another where their rate went from .01 percent to 1 percent) and one in DC where the nanny sought unemployment but was denied where she quit without notice.

But none on how much the rate would go up in similar circumstances in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't know about DC. In VA it goes pretty close to max of 6.85% depending on the length go time the nanny collects benefits. You can research the maximum number in DC. Unless there is a clear cause, with written warnings that nanny signed, and explicit evidence that nanny did something clearly wrong (e.g. Left children unattended with a knife and a fire burning next to them) it is very hard to get the claim dismissed. My friend had a video of a nanny watching TV while a baby was SCREAMING upstairs for hours at end with the monitor on -- well the deputy did not find that a cause because there was no warning to the nanny that watching TV for hours was unacceptable, child was safe and the nanny LOVED the child and that was her way of teaching something to the baby.

It's deplorable that anyone would call such a person a caregiver, much less a "nanny".

Your friend hired a sitter, literally.
Not a nanny.

Really? Here too? Every damn thread...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't know about DC. In VA it goes pretty close to max of 6.85% depending on the length go time the nanny collects benefits. You can research the maximum number in DC. Unless there is a clear cause, with written warnings that nanny signed, and explicit evidence that nanny did something clearly wrong (e.g. Left children unattended with a knife and a fire burning next to them) it is very hard to get the claim dismissed. My friend had a video of a nanny watching TV while a baby was SCREAMING upstairs for hours at end with the monitor on -- well the deputy did not find that a cause because there was no warning to the nanny that watching TV for hours was unacceptable, child was safe and the nanny LOVED the child and that was her way of teaching something to the baby.

We too are thinking of firing our nanny. She has been with us for 3 years, but the past two have gotten progressively worse and we are really unhappy. The 6.58%- this means that we must pay this while the nanny collects benefits? Or that our insurance for the next nanny goes up while the original nanny is collecting?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't know about DC. In VA it goes pretty close to max of 6.85% depending on the length go time the nanny collects benefits. You can research the maximum number in DC. Unless there is a clear cause, with written warnings that nanny signed, and explicit evidence that nanny did something clearly wrong (e.g. Left children unattended with a knife and a fire burning next to them) it is very hard to get the claim dismissed. My friend had a video of a nanny watching TV while a baby was SCREAMING upstairs for hours at end with the monitor on -- well the deputy did not find that a cause because there was no warning to the nanny that watching TV for hours was unacceptable, child was safe and the nanny LOVED the child and that was her way of teaching something to the baby.

We too are thinking of firing our nanny. She has been with us for 3 years, but the past two have gotten progressively worse and we are really unhappy. The 6.58%- this means that we must pay this while the nanny collects benefits? Or that our insurance for the next nanny goes up while the original nanny is collecting?

Sounds like she wants out to. Have you ask her?

[Anonymous]

13:26 -- The rate goes up for you for the next nanny you hire if the old nanny collects benefits. It stays with you forever, because it is factored into your "experience level." So that is why if you are firing for cause, you might want to document it ahead of time. If PP is right, and video of a nanny ignoring a screaming baby for hours won't suffice, then it may not matter. But if it helps, I know of someone who successfully fought it in VA with written notice of prior infractions.

[Anonymous]

It kills me that parents leave their kids with bad people.