UPDATE- New Yorkers are required to file state taxes on money received from pandemic Updated May 14, 2021; STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- New Yorkers are required to file a tax form for unemployment benefits received in 2020. The Statement for Recipients of Certain Government Payments (1099-G) is a tax form that shows how much an individual was paid in benefits from NYSDOL in 2020. The 1099-G tax forms include the total amount of money one was paid in unemployment benefits in 2020, along with adjustments or tax withholdings made to the benefits. The 1099-G tax form includes money received from Unemployment Insurance (UI), Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), Extended Benefits (EB), Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), and Lost Wages Assistance (LWA).