# Get your SIDES E-Response requests through an API > Read your open Separation Information Requests with their due dates and response statuses, and your Monetary and Potential Charges notices, with one API call each. A workflow can check each of your states every weekday morning and email you what is due. Page: https://fous.com/automate/sides-e-response Updated: 2026-11-12 Works with your own SIDES E-Response account. Fous is an independent product. ## What you can build on E-Response ### Get separation information requests Reads the Separation Information Requests list for one state, then each request's Claim Details screen. - Takes: State, hide submitted records (optional) - Returns: Claimant name, claim number, claim type, claim effective date, benefit year begin, request date, due date, response status ### Read monetary and potential charges notices Reads each notice in the Monetary and Potential Charges exchange: its Claim Details and its Benefits and Potential Charges tab. - Takes: State - Returns: Claimant name, base period, wages by quarter, weekly benefit, maximum benefit, payment percentage charged, potentially chargeable, charge weeks, total charge ### List a charges notice's UI Instructions Opens one Monetary and Potential Charges notice and reads its UI Instructions tab: the documents the state attached to it. - Takes: State, claimant name - Returns: Document name, type, attachment type ### Fill in a separation response and save it Fills the Separation, Wages/Payments and Preparer tabs of one request and selects Save, leaving Submit to a person. - Takes: State, claimant name, separation details, wages and payments, preparer details - Returns: Claimant name, due date, response status ## Automate E-Response 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. ### Separation information requests due, every state Starts: Every weekday at 7:00 1. For each state you name, get the separation information requests with submitted records hidden. 2. Keep the requests with a response status of Not Started or In Progress. 3. Email you the list by state, soonest due date first. ### New potential charges notices, posted to your claims system Starts: Every weekday at 8:00 1. For each state, read the monetary and potential charges notices. 2. Keep the notices that were not there on the last run. 3. Post the state, claimant name, wages by quarter, potentially chargeable and total charge to your webhook. ### Separation responses drafted from your HR system Starts: When your HR system calls the workflow's webhook with a claimant and separation details 1. Fill in the separation response for that claimant and save it without submitting. 2. Email you the claimant name, state and due date so a person can review and submit it. 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 separation information requests” 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": "uisides.org/get_separation_information_requests", "input": { "state": "Ohio", "hide_submitted": true } }' ``` Example response: ``` { "status": "completed", "data": { "state": "Ohio", "requests": [ { "claimant_name": "Doe, Jordan", "claim_number": "48213907", "claim_type": "Regular UI, New Initial Claim", "claim_effective": "2026-11-01", "benefit_year_begin": "2026-11-01", "request_date": "2026-11-09", "due_date": "2026-11-19", "response_status": "Not Started" } ], "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. ## E-Response’s own options SIDES E-Response is a free website where you type in each response, and it has no API of its own. For large claim volumes or several states, NASWA offers SIDES System Integration: a computer-to-computer link from your own systems to the UI SIDES Central Broker, which you program yourself. | Option | What it covers | What it takes | | --- | --- | --- | | SIDES System Integration | Connects your internal systems to the UI SIDES Central Broker to receive requests and send responses, for employers, TPAs and PEOs. | Your own programming and up-front integration resources. Arranged with the NASWA UI SIDES Team. | | E-Response by hand | One state and one exchange per sign-in. Each response is filled in tab by tab and ends with a confirmation number and a downloadable PDF. | No cost. Onboarding and a PIN/Access Code from each state workforce agency. | Read on November 12, 2026: [NASWA: UI SIDES](https://www.naswa.org/uisides), [SIDES E-Response sign-in](https://uisides.org/sew/), [Separation Information E-Response Users Guide](https://dol.ny.gov/e-response-separation-information-user-guide). ## Signing in to E-Response E-Response signs you in with your state, the exchange, your Federal and State Employer Identification Numbers and a PIN/Access Code from your state workforce agency. More than 3 unsuccessful attempts disable the account until your UI agency helps. With Fous you sign in once through E-Response's own sign-in: the login is sealed with AES-256, and an expired session is signed back in. ## Worth knowing - **Records stay for 35 days**: Requests are shown for 35 days from the request date, and an emailed copy of a response is not sent. Save the confirmation number and download the response PDF while the request is still listed. - **One state and one exchange per sign-in**: The sign-in asks for a state and an exchange, such as Monetary & Potential Charges. A method takes the state as an input, and a workflow loops over your states. - **Down every Sunday from midnight to 4:00 ET**: E-Response is down for maintenance every Sunday from midnight to 4:00 ET. Schedule runs outside that window. - **Attachments are limited to 5 MB**: The Documentation tab accepts csv, jpg, jpeg, pdf, rtf, tiff and txt, with all attachments together limited to 5 megabytes. 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No, E-Response is a website where each response is entered by hand. NASWA offers SIDES System Integration instead: a computer-to-computer interface from your own systems to the UI SIDES Central Broker, for employers, TPAs and PEOs with many claims or several states, which you program yourself. ### How long can I see a request in SIDES E-Response? For 35 days from the request date. After you submit, a confirmation number and a downloadable PDF are shown, and no emailed copy is sent, so keep both when you submit. ### Do I have to answer every monetary and potential charges notice? Not always. The Claim Details screen can say that a response is required only if you are requesting relief of charges. The Relief Request screen then asks whether you want relief of the charges or wages. ### Does SIDES E-Response cost anything? No. The New York State user guide describes SIDES E-Response as a free website with no cost to use. Each state workforce agency signs employers up and provides the PIN/Access Code. ### Is Fous affiliated with the National Association of State Workforce Agencies? No. Fous is an independent product. You use it with your own SIDES E-Response sign-in, and a method reads and does only what that sign-in can. Fous is an independent product: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the operator of SIDES E-Response (National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) with participating state agencies). 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.