What is a MiWAM Form 1028- Employer’s Quarterly Wage/ Tax Report?
Michigan Web Account Manager or MiWAM is a platform that manages people’s unemployment accounts digitally. It has been recently digitized for people’s convenience and security by the UIA or the Unemployment Insurance Agency.
Employers registered with the UIA must disclose detailed wages paid every quarter to all the contributing employees. Thus, they are required to fill the form 1028.
While transitioning from manual to digital, it has also terminated many forms and combined the information on a single form thus eliminating filling multiple forms from time to time. Form 1028 will handle the tasks of six forms namely Quarterly Wage Detail Report, Amended Wage Detail Report, Employer’s Quarterly Tax Report, Reimbursing Employer’s Quarterly Payroll Report, Amended Quarterly Tax Report, and Amended Reimbursing Employer’s Quarterly Payroll Report.
Information required on a MiWAM Form 1028
The Unemployment Insurance Agency requires you to mention your employer account number with them.
Apart from that, this form of 2 sheets is divided into four sections.
The form requires the employer to mention the total number of employees that were paid wages in the quarter including full-time and part-time employees. All the employees’ Social Security Number is also to be mentioned mandatorily along with the gross wage paid to each employee, separately and in total.
How to Fill Out a MiWAM Form 1028
Obtain Form 1028 from authorized sources. It could be online as well as offline. You can pick up the form in person from the nearest UIA office. You can also skip the queues and the crowd by downloading and printing the form online from any authorized website. Filling the form online takes less time and helps prevent mistakes.
- Start by specifying your employer account number with the Unemployment Insurance Agency.
- Write the number of employees that worked with you and were paid in the past quarter, whether full-time or part-time.
- Mention the quarter-ending date of your company. In the second section, mention the details of employees that were paid this quarter.
- Write the names of the employees, their social security number, and the gross wages paid to them this quarter.
- Even if you switch pages in the form, make sure to mention your employee account number or your EAN on the top of every page.
- Once you have filled out the details of all the employees, move to the third section.
- Write the total gross wages for the quarter, the excess wages, and the taxable wages.
- Below this will be dedicated spaces for tax rate, tax due, and similar information.
- Make sure to fill in those correctly. Take help, if needed.
- In the fourth and last section, mention the date, your title, contact number and verify the truthfulness of the information by signing the form.
It is always suggested that you keep a copy of Form 1028 for yourself.
What is the MiWAM Form 1028 Used for?
The form 1028 for Employer’s Quarterly Wage/ Tax Report is used by the Unemployment Insurance Agency for recordkeeping to let them know how much wage was paid to the contributing employees in each quarter.
It is also used for employees to file a claim in case of unemployment. In such cases, it becomes easier for the UIA to track the employee’s contributions and pay them.
The form could have legal implications and it should always have the correct information on it. Therefore, cautiousness while filling it out is advised.
