On August 19, 2013, New Jersey enacted legislation implementing the federal Trade Adjustment Assistance Extension Act, which penalizes employers who fail to timely respond to requests for information from state unemployment offices. The legislation amends New Jersey’s Unemployment Compensation Law and is designed to ensure that employers respond promptly to requests for information concerning unemployment and temporary disability claims. Pursuant to the new legislation, if (1) the Division of Unemployment and Temporary Disability Insurance (the Division) makes an error in paying a benefit because an employer failed to respond in a timely and adequate manner to a request from the Division for information relating to the claim, and (2) an employer has established a pattern of failing to respond to such requests, then the Division cannot relieve the employer’s account of the erroneously charged benefit payments. The law applies to benefit payments made on or after October 22, 2013.