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Idaho Department of Labor director outlines benefits, fraud enforcement and workforce services to House committee
Summary
Director Janie Revere told a House committee that Idaho’s unemployment insurance program remains solvent, the department reduced employer UI tax rates for 2025, and the state’s disability-determination office is processing claims faster than most states.
At a meeting of a state House committee, Janie Revere, director of the Idaho Department of Labor, gave an overview of the department’s programs, unemployment insurance rules and claims-processing work, and answered lawmakers’ questions.
Revere told the committee that “the Department of Labor is divided into 3 divisions,” and described the determinations division (which includes unemployment insurance, disability determination services and wage-and-hour functions), the workforce and commissions bureau, and administrative services.
The presentation explained how Idaho’s unemployment insurance (UI) program operates as a federal–state partnership: benefits are paid from a trust fund financed by a tax on employers and administered under state law by department staff. Revere said UI taxes are experience-rated and that claimants must…
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