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ssedlac
Level 2

Unemployment Insurance Issue

For the past year and a half I have been trying to get Quickbooks to resolve an issue with Unemployment Insurance.  After talking with the state I had a good understanding of what the issue was.  The state put together a letter explaining the situation to Quickbooks, and also included a snapshot of our account.  I have talked to many agents, and spent countless hours on the phone trying to fix this issue and I don't know what else to do at this point.  Our Arkansas state Unemployment Insurance is considered Reimbursable which means we owe $0 to the state.  Quickbook pulled out over $5K from our non-profit account to pay unemployment insurance.  The accountant at the time did not notice this error.  Since the state billed $0, no money was ever received to the state of Arkansas.  They have verified this.  They also said that this has been an issue with Quickbook in multiple instances.  They said that Quickbook pulls the money in another account to pay the state but when $0 is billed and $0 paid to the state that money just remains in that secondary account.  Once we caught this issue Quickbooks reimbursed us the most recent transaction.  But they have refused to reimburse anything else.  Each time they come up with a different excuse that is completely false!  The most recent reason they close the case...they said we did not have payroll during that timeframe.  Which is a complete lie and takes no effort to see in the account that we did indeed have payroll.  It honesly seems like fraud and that they are doing everything they possibly can to not pay us back the money they erronously took.  And I don't know what to do!  Any ideas?  Better Business Bureau?  What are my options?  I am not being paid for this!  I just hate to see a nonprofit being defrauded!

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FishingForAnswers
Level 10

Unemployment Insurance Issue

@ssedlac   It is fraud; you should take it to the BBB and FTC and every other applicable entity.

 

They've been pulling this kind of thing more and more often lately; I'm given to understand that there's even a Facebook group milling around, trying to pull together a class-action lawsuit over things like this.

ssedlac
Level 2

Unemployment Insurance Issue

Thanks for the reply.  Given that the state mentioned that they are seeing this happen many times, I could definitely see how this is a widespread issue.  And given their responses in how they are closing the case, it is very blatant that they are purposely not looking for real resolution but just trying to get the customer to give up and stop pursuing it.  I can imagine a lot of people do give up and just lose money.  

FishingForAnswers
Level 10

Unemployment Insurance Issue

@ssedlac   In fact, they also do this with the customer payments; you can find hundreds of threads in this community where they've held payments 'in the name of security' for weeks at a time, sometimes up to 270 days, and then only because they're legally required to send it to the state at that point.

 

Not small payments either; gets up in the 10s of thousands range.

 

It wouldn't surprise me if QB has led many of its customers to bankruptcy in this way.

ssedlac
Level 2

Unemployment Insurance Issue

They finally resolved it and issued the refund where needed.  Sad that it took elevating the issue to get real help!

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