RI bi-weekly payment bonds.
Flat 3%. Enter your amount.
Rhode Island normally requires weekly wage payment. To pay less often, an employer petitions the Department of Labor and Training and posts a surety bond in the amount of its highest bi-weekly payroll exposure under R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-14-2.2. We issue that bond at a flat 3% — enter your figure and the premium updates.
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Three steps to your DLT approval.
Your petition to pay less often than weekly is waiting on this security. Here's the whole process:
Apply online
Business details, the bond amount tied to your bi-weekly payroll, and an effective date. The only extra step is a one-time consent to a soft credit pull.
Reviewed & approved
Most clear quickly; if underwriting needs anything, an underwriter reaches out within 48 hours. The soft pull informs approval, never the price.
File with your DLT petition
Pay online and receive the executed bond, ready to submit with your written petition to the Department of Labor and Training. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.
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Bond amount × 3% = your premium, one-time, $275 minimum. Enter your highest bi-weekly payroll exposure and the premium updates.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Rhode Island law makes weekly wage payment the default. Under R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-14-2.2, the Director of the Department of Labor and Training may permit an employer to pay less often — but only on a written petition showing good and sufficient reason, and only with security covering the wages at stake.
The accepted security is a surety bond, or other sufficient demonstration of security, in the amount of the highest bi-weekly payroll exposure for the affected employees in the preceding year. The bond stands behind those wages: if the employer fails to pay them, employees can recover against the bond.
It is not insurance for the employer — if the surety pays employees, the employer repays the surety. An employer who pays on its predesignated schedule treats the bond as a filing formality. Confirm the exact amount and conditions with the DLT, since the petition drives both.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual underwriting fields, including a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. Submit once and your bond is typically issued within 1–2 business days.
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Your DLT petition is waiting on one document.
Five-minute application, flat 3%, $275 minimum. Enter your bi-weekly payroll exposure and file the same day.