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Explain unemployment compensation and whom it benefits and when must employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes for a domestic employee?

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The solution explains what unemployment compensation is, who it benefits and when employers must pay unemployment taxes.

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The Social Security Act of 1935 created the Federal-State Unemployment Compensation (UC) Program. The program has two main objectives: (1) to provide temporary and partial wage replacement to involuntarily unemployed workers who were recently employed; and (2) to help stabilize the economy during ...

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