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Cost-Saving Ideas > General Oversight, Payroll/Employee Benefits

Cost-Saving Ideas: Minimizing Unemployment Insurance Costs

January 2016 –

You can take steps to reduce the cost of unemployment insurance, which provides short-term financial assistance to people who become unemployed through no fault of their own. The New York State Department of Labor (DOL) determines who qualifies for benefits and individual employers fund their own programs.