MI HB5002

Requires Michigan's unemployment insurance agency to use "plain language" (clear, concise, fourth-grade reading level, avoiding complex vocabulary) in all correspondence, documents, and communications with claimants and employers

Mandates that all determinations and redeterminations include clear factual reasons with particularized facts specific to the claim, plus summaries of appeal and reconsideration rights

Requires determinations to include a summary list of all related determinations showing the outcome, date of issuance, appeal deadline, and reconsideration deadline

Requires the agency to consolidate all determinations related to a single issue into one determination and all redeterminations into one redetermination

Requires notifications about benefit denials, modifications, or cessations to include both the particularized facts supporting the decision and the legal reason, along with applicable appeal rights