Advocacy Action Center

RAM members are urged to contact their elected officials and request support for using available federal and state resources to replenish the depleted Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund. The recent pandemic resulted in a $7 billion UI deficit, which employers will have...

RAM members are urged to take action now by contacting the Federal Reserve Board and requesting their support in providing your businesses with relief from the high cost of accepting debit card payments.  Recently, the Federal Reserve Board issued a Notice of Proposed...

Sales agents for the Massachusetts Lottery are urged to take action now to oppose two proposals being considered by the Legislature which threaten to impact your lottery sales business.  The first would authorize the sale of lottery products by debit card (Cashless...

The state recently passed legislation designed to address sizeable spikes in Q1 UI Tax bills received by Massachusetts employers resulting from pandemic-related layoffs.  The new law shifted pandemic-related unemployment claims, previously charged to the program's...