Get your NYS unemployment charges through an API

What you can build on Unemployment Services

• Get IA96 charge notices

  Build this

  Reads the Notices of Experience Rating Charges (IA96) or Benefit Reimbursement Charges (IA96R) in your Unemployment Services account for a month you pick.

  Takes

  Employer registration number, month

  Returns

  Notice type, notice date, claimant, benefit week, charge, cancellation or adjustment, amount, total

• Check account balance and payment history

  Build this

  Reads the account view in Unemployment Services: the balance on the UI account and the payments made to it.

  Takes

  Employer registration number

  Returns

  Account status, balance due, payment date, payment amount, payment method

• List new correspondence and information requests

  Build this

  Reads the correspondence in Unemployment Services, including requests for information about a claim, with the date each response is due.

  Takes

  Employer registration number, received since (optional)

  Returns

  Received date, notice or request name, claimant, response due, status

• Ask for a hearing on a determination

  Build this

  Opens Hearing and Appeals, selects Ask for a Hearing or Appeal, picks the determination notice you name and submits the request with your reason.

  Takes

  Employer registration number, determination notice, reason

  Returns

  Determination notice, claimant, request date, confirmation

Automate Unemployment Services with a workflow

A workflow runs your methods as one process, with nobody at the screen. A schedule or a call from your own system starts it, the steps run in order, and the result arrives in your inbox or in the systems you already use.

• Monthly IA96 charges, handed to accounting

  Build this

  Starts

  On the 10th of every month at 9:00 America/New_York

  Step 1

  Get last month's IA96 charge notices for your employer registration number.

  Step 2

  Stop when there are no charges, cancellations or adjustments.

  Step 3

  Post each line with claimant, benefit week, type and amount, and the total, to your accounting webhook.

• New information requests and notices, every morning

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 8:00 America/New_York

  Step 1

  List the correspondence and information requests in Unemployment Services.

  Step 2

  Keep the items that were not there on the last run.

  Step 3

  Email you each one with its claimant and response due date.

• Balances due across your employer clients

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Monday at 7:00 America/New_York

  Step 1

  For each employer client you name, check the account balance and payment history.

  Step 2

  Keep the accounts with a balance due.

  Step 3

  Email you the list with balance, account status and last payment.

You can run a workflow by hand on every plan, Free included. Schedules and webhook triggers come with the paid plans, from $29 a month.

Once built, one call from your code

Once you have built a method, it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “Get IA96 charge notices” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "uiservices.labor.ny.gov/get_charge_notices",
    "input": {
      "employer_registration_number": "12-34567",
      "month": "2026-10"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "employer": "Acme Fabrication LLC",
    "notices": [
      {
        "notice_type": "IA96",
        "notice_date": "2026-10-31",
        "lines": [
          {
            "claimant": "J. Rivera",
            "benefit_week": "2026-10-11",
            "type": "Charge",
            "amount": 504
          }
        ],
        "total": 696,
        "currency": "USD"
      }
    ],
    "count": 1
  }
}

An example with invented data, not a ready-made endpoint. The method exists in your organization once you build it, and its name, inputs and fields follow your request.

Unemployment Services’s own options

For claim information requests and benefit charges, the Department of Labor offers SIDES, an exchange with your own system that costs nothing beyond your integration work, and SIDES E-Response, which needs no programming and has no charge. Balances, payment history and IA96 notices are viewed in Unemployment Services itself. Quarterly NYS-45 returns are filed with the Tax Department.

Read on November 12, 2026: Unemployment Services for employers, SIDES and SIDES E-Response, Planning for charge notice delivery.

Signing in to Unemployment Services

Unemployment Services signs you in with a username and password, and existing UIOS users keep their current credentials. A new account needs your FEIN or ER number, the legal business name and a prior return's remuneration, the mailed PIN or your NYBE application ID. With Fous you sign in once through Unemployment Services' own sign-in with your own account, and the login is sealed with AES-256.

Worth knowing

A new system since November 2026

The upgrade to Unemployment Services began on 2 November 2026 and was planned to take 9 to 12 days, with online services unavailable meanwhile. Existing UIOS credentials carry over to it.

IA96 notices no longer arrive by SFTP or CD

You view and download IA96 and IA96R notices in your account. They come electronically if you choose electronic correspondence, through SIDES if you are enrolled, and otherwise on paper by mail.

30 days to ask for a hearing

Hearing requests must be filed within 30 days of the date on the Notice of Determination. If the determination is not listed, the request goes through Secured Messaging with the Protest category.

Quarterly returns are filed elsewhere

NYS-45 returns and contributions go to the Department of Taxation and Finance, due April 30, July 31, October 31 and January 31. Unemployment Services holds the UI account, its charges and its correspondence.

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