# Get your NYS unemployment charges through an API > Read your IA96 Notices of Experience Rating Charges, balance, payment history and new correspondence from Unemployment Services with one API call each. A workflow can collect each month's IA96 charges and hand them to accounting. Page: https://fous.com/automate/nys-dol-unemployment-services-for-employers Updated: 2026-11-12 Works with your own NYS DOL Unemployment Services for employers account. Fous is an independent product. ## What you can build on Unemployment Services ### Get IA96 charge notices 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 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 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 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](/product/workflows) 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 Starts: On the 10th of every month at 9:00 America/New_York 1. Get last month's IA96 charge notices for your employer registration number. 2. Stop when there are no charges, cancellations or adjustments. 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 Starts: Every weekday at 8:00 America/New_York 1. List the correspondence and information requests in Unemployment Services. 2. Keep the items that were not there on the last run. 3. Email you each one with its claimant and response due date. ### Balances due across your employer clients Starts: Every Monday at 7:00 America/New_York 1. For each employer client you name, check the account balance and payment history. 2. Keep the accounts with a balance due. 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](/product/methods), 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. Example request: ``` 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" } }' ``` Example response: ``` { "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. | Option | What it covers | What it takes | | --- | --- | --- | | SIDES | Separation information, monetary and potential charges, and benefit charges, exchanged with your own system. | Integration with your own system, at no other cost. Enrolled participants take part in all of these exchanges. | | SIDES E-Response | The same requests plus additional fact finding: each one emails you to sign in to Unemployment Services and answer it. | Enrollment in SIDES E-Response. No programming and no charge. | | Tax Department Online Services | NYS-45 quarterly returns and contribution payments by Web File, Web Upload or FSET-compatible software. | An Online Services account with the Department of Taxation and Finance. | | Unemployment Services by hand | Balances, payment history, payments, IA96 and IA96R notices, information requests, protests and hearing requests. | An Unemployment Services account; existing UIOS credentials carry over. | Read on November 12, 2026: [Unemployment Services for employers](https://dol.ny.gov/bizserve/ui/about), [SIDES and SIDES E-Response](https://dol.ny.gov/bizserve/ui/register/sides), [Planning for charge notice delivery](https://dol.ny.gov/bizserve/ui/prg/cn). ## 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. 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Not for the whole account. For claim information requests and benefit charges, the Department of Labor offers SIDES, free apart from your integration work, and SIDES E-Response, which needs no programming. Balances, payment history and IA96 notices are in the Unemployment Services account itself. ### Where do I find my IA96 Notice of Experience Rating Charges now? In your Unemployment Services account, where you can view and download IA96 and IA96R notices. They are no longer sent by SFTP or CD. The Department sends an IA96 each month there are benefit charges, cancellations or adjustments on your account. ### Can I pay my unemployment insurance balance online? Yes. You can pay through your Unemployment Services account, or make a one-time credit card payment through the online payment portal. If you cannot pay in full, you can apply for a Deferred Payment Arrangement online in Unemployment Services. ### Can a third-party representative use Unemployment Services for several employers? Yes. A TPR can add and manage employer clients and perform account functions for them according to its level of authority. With Fous, a workflow can loop over your clients and call the same method for each. ### Is Fous affiliated with the New York State Department of Labor? No. Fous is an independent product. You use it with your own Unemployment Services account, and a method reads and does only what that account can. Fous is an independent product: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the operator of NYS DOL Unemployment Services for employers (New York State Department of Labor). The name is used only to say which system this page is about. Something here wrong or out of date? Write to legal@fous.com.