01/15/2021
Notice for recipients of NJ Unemployment Insurance:
If you received Unemployment Insurance, Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation or Extended Benefits, you may have chosen to withhold 10% of your benefits for tax purposes. That option was not available for the supplemental $600 Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) or $300 FEMA Lost Wages Assistance payments. You are responsible for paying any required federal taxes on any unemployment compensation payments you received in 2020.
The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development has provided information on the benefits you collected, which is contained on your 1099-G tax statement, to the Internal Revenue Service, as required by federal law.
