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Cross-posted from Employer thread:

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?
  
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 an "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.   So an increase to 7% could be an increase of $400 a year for who knows how many years.

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.

We have ample reason to terminate for cause.  But our nanny has other good qualities and I hate to see someone not get paid.   Also, we do have a written warning to the nanny from several months ago (though I did not make her sign it).

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