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New York State Department of Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon signed an Order to temporarily modify the unemployment benefit charging system and ease the burden for unemployment insurance charges incurred by all employers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the Order here. The Order provides that all unemployment benefits paid out to claimants since March 9, 2020 will be charged against New York State's general unemployment insurance account and will not be attributed to individual employers until further notice. The Order also cancels all charges made against employers' accounts since March 9 across the board-regardless of whether the employer pays unemployment insurance taxes based on an experience rating or uses the benefit reimbursement model.