Reduce your unemployment
claims costs by 40% or more
UC Alternative drives down your unemployment claim costs, reduces your UI tax rate, and takes the administrative burden off your shoulders.
Capture more savings
by winning more cases.
Pay the lowest possible
UI tax rate you qualify for.
Spend less time managing
unemployment claims.
Reimagine how low your unemployment claims costs could be
With regulations evolving and operating expenses rising, it’s never been more challenging to manage your unemployment claims efficiently and keep claims costs down. You can’t afford to spend more time or money on claims than necessary—and with UC Alternative as your partner, you’ll save on both fronts.
UC Alternative brings the insight, expertise, and knowledge of unemployment law to help you achieve significant claims savings. We uncover your true unemployment costs, including the cost of each type of claim lost by location. Then we apply our proven processes and deep expertise to reduce those expenses, appeal invalid claims successfully, and help you achieve the lowest possible UI tax rate—often far below the average rate for your industry, in your state. For companies with a sizable workforce, reducing the UI tax rate can translate to millions of dollars in savings.
Our clients see their unemployment costs drop by 40% or more, resulting in many clients reaching their minimum UI tax rate. We deliver these exceptional results by approaching each claim as a winnable opportunity, focusing on two critical measures: the cost of claims lost (by type), and your UI tax rate. Our process wins more claims upfront, reducing the need for appeals and saving your team valuable time. And we deliver insightful reports that reveal how your claims costs compare to peer companies in your industry, by state, so you know where and how you can improve to reap more savings.
Pay for claims results, not claims volume
Many providers charge a flat fee per claim processed, creating no incentive to improve your success percentage or reduce your UI tax rate.
UC Alternative is different: We’re compensated to outperform.
Our unique performance-based fee structure ensures we have a strong incentive to accurately forecast how much we can reduce your claims costs and your UI tax rate, then apply the most effective strategies to realize those improvements and drive unmatched savings to the bottom line. We take ownership of the process and handle your unemployment claims with a specific goal in mind: to help you win the claim, so you can achieve a better claim experience rating and ultimately a lower UI tax rate, aiming to reduce it to below your industry’s average, by state.
To achieve better performance, UC Alternative takes a proven approach to driving down your UI tax rate to the lowest rate possible for each of your locations. Our unemployment tax specialists will:
Compare what your UI tax rates are now
vs what they could be, on a state-by-state basis
Establish UI tax rate
savings goals that help you evaluate program performance
Help you take advantage
of making voluntary contributions
Analyze and recommend
joint accounts where allowed
Identify and report
on fraudulent unemployment claims and help you secure timely reversals
Verify new tax
rates for correctness
Identify the hidden
value of tax rates in cases of mergers, acquisitions, or reorganizations
Start reaping unemployment savings like these
$4.8 Million
Cumulative tax savings achieved by driving down UI tax rate from 1.7% to 0.5% in three years for a company with 9,000 employees.
$4.2 Million
Cumulative tax savings achieved by reducing UI tax rate from 1.8% to 0.1% in three years for a company with 6,000 employees.
$900,000
Cumulative savings achieved by reducing unemployment claim costs over four years for a company with 4,100 employees.
Spend less time managing claims by shifting the burden to us
We know that most HR departments are struggling to handle more work with leaner staffs. By taking on the administrative work for you and leveraging our highly streamlined processes, we can handle a high volume of unemployment claims promptly, efficiently, and in full compliance. And because we help you establish the most efficient internal processes around unemployment claims, you’ll find it much faster and easier to collect and submit the required separation information and keep the process moving effortlessly.
Working as an extension of your team, we obtain power of attorney to represent your organization with each state in which you operate and keep current on changing state-specific regulations to maintain compliance. Our systems diligently track outstanding claims to ensure our team stays on top of open items, and our claims analysts make timely contact to gather separation information whenever we receive a new notice, assuring we meet crucial deadlines.
From carefully reviewing claim notices, to confirming all information is complete and all supporting documentation provided, to formulating a winning response that leverages our expertise and submitting it electronically through the State Information Data Exchange System (SIDES), UC Alternative does everything it takes to craft a strong case, win more claims upfront, and reduce appeals. We even set you up for success long before a claim is filed, encouraging all your locations to consult with us before discharging an employee to ensure they follow required procedures. And in the event that you need to appeal, our highly effective appeal process blueprint ensures your witnesses are fully prepared to defend the case.
Employee files for unemployment with the state
State issues claim notice to UC Alternative electronically through SIDES
UC Alternative requests separation information from your company
You submit information and documentation through our secure, easy-to-use portal, and we review it for completeness
UC Alternative obtains more details on any terminations with cause to ensure you’ve selected the proper reason and formulates a winning response and submits it through SIDES
State issues a ruling on the claim
UC Alternative recommends whether to appeal the decision
UC Alternative prepares and files an appeal with the state
UC Alternative thoroughly prepares your witnesses to make successful hearing arguments
If needed, UC Alternative recommends whether to proceed to the board of appeals
