WV Unemployment Update Needs Work

@AnneMariee  While I don't understand why they put the fields in Payroll Setup instead of allowing you to change it through the Edit Employee window in the Employee Center, that mostly works, but I still see nowhere to put their Occupational Title. Payroll Setup only had spots for the County and SOC.

Can you point out where that is?

 Hello, @FishingForAnswers.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Your concerns are completely valid. Let’s get to the bottom of this.

In the Payroll Setup window, only the fields for occupational and county codes are available for West Virginia. You can add the job title to the employee's profile.

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@MsNorthPND18  There is a field explicitly called Employee's Occupational Title on the Workforce West Virginia Enhanced Wage section of the WVUC-A-154, or WV Unemployment Report as I've been referring to it.

In fact, a recent QB update added a reminder under the Payroll center, left-hand side, reminding users to add the employee job title, specifically under the Job Details section of Employment Info under the Edit Employee window.

The problem is that the Title field in that Job Details section isn't carrying over the information to the WVUC-A-154, and I don't see any such Title field in Payroll Setup either.

@MsNorthPND18  Editing your post in response to my later question is less than helpful, particularly when it doesn't address what I said in full.

I suspect I'm not getting any more information here, but @AnneMariee  did a pretty good job answering most of it, so thanks for that.

Let me clarify the information mentioned by my colleague, @FishingForAnswers. Your concern about the occupational title details not appearing on your unemployment report is understandable, as this is important for accurate reporting and compliance.

In the payroll setup, you can only add occupational and county codes. There is no field for the title. However, you can input these details in your employee's profile, and they will be visible on the Quarterly Employee Wage Report though it won't reflect on your Unemployment Report as previously mentioned by AnneMariee. We're glad that she was able to shed some light on this matter.

Nonetheless, we'd like to ask for a screenshot of the Employee's Occupational Title field on the Workforce West Virginia Enhanced Wage section of the WVUC-A-154, if applicable. It would also be helpful if you could share a screenshot of the prompt message that reminds you to update your employee's title. With these additional details, we would be able to provide a more comprehensive solution.

Regarding NinoNorth's response, we have carefully reviewed and updated it to address the concerns you raised. I genuinely appreciate your efforts in bringing this to our attention.

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@ShyMae  Sure, here you go.

As you can see, the notice implies that adding a Title to the Employee Info under Job Details will cause said Title to carry over to the Employee's Occupational Title column of the WVUC-A-154.

While the helpful advice from @AnneMariee  did work for getting the SOC and County of Work to carry through to the WVUC-A-154 from the Payroll Setup information, entering the Title under Job Details does not carry the information through to the WVUC-A-154.

The screenshot of the WVUC-A-154, of course, is devoid of information; I have no intentions of posting that kind of information on a public forum. It was simply to show the Employee's Occupational Title column in question.

@ShyMae  Everything ended up working out well.

That said, I get the impression that at least part of QuickBooks' variant of the WVUC-154-A form itself may be out of date. Specifically, Line 16 of the Contribution Report in the QuickBooks variant still fills in the number of employees per month based on the number of employees that worked during the pay period including the 12th of the month in question.

While that is all well and good, I have received calls from Workforce West Virginia (The entity responsible for the processing of WVUC-154-A submissions) telling me to redo some of my submissions. These particular incidents involved the company in question happening to have payroll in every weekly pay period of the month in the relevant Quarter *except for* the pay period including the 12th.

As a result, Line 16 had blank, or 0 employees showing for every month of the Quarter despite having payroll in every month of said Quarter.

Further, Workforce West Virginia has changed their submission website to no longer include the 'including the 12th of the month' qualifier with regards to the number of employees that worked in the relevant month. Now, it simply reads: 'Number of employees in the pay period: 1st month, 2nd month, 3rd month'.

This may just be the result of misguided office workers and website technicians at Workforce West Virginia, but I believe it would be worth the time of your form developers to reach out to them and make certain of how Workforce wants the employee count per month to be reported on the WVUC-154-A Contribution Report.

We appreciate your valuable input about the West Virginia Unemployment form, @FishingForAnswers. I'm here to help you send your feedback.

I highly recommend sharing your suggestion directly with our product engineering team so they can collaborate with Workforce West Virginia to ensure that the WVUC-154-A Contribution Report displays the correct data.

We're committed to continuously refining and enhancing our product based on customer insights, making it more efficient and user-friendly for everyone.

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