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Electronic & Magnetic Media Data Formats

Wisconsin Unemployment Insurance accepts quarterly wage data in three data formats:

Wisconsin UI Format - Alternative 1: This record format contains the employer UI account number, employee wage information and quarter designation in one self-contained 80 byte record per employee.

Federal IRS/SSA Tape Format - Alternative 2: This is a modified IRS/SSA tape format. We will be capturing wage record information exclusively from record types 'E' and 'S'. Each record is 275 bytes in length.

Federal IRS/SSA Diskette Format - Alternative 3: This is a modified IRS/SSA diskette format. We will be capturing wage record information from record types '1E', '2E', '1W', and '2W". Each record is 128 bytes in length.

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