Eligibility and amount

In order to receive benefits, a person must have worked for at least one quarter in the previous year and have been laid-off by an employer. Workers who were temporary or were paid under the table are not eligible for unemployment insurance. If a worker quits or is fired they are not eligible for UI benefits. There are five common reasons a claim for unemployment benefits are denied: the worker is unavailable for work, the worker quit his or her job, the worker was fired, refusing suitable work, and unemployment resulting from a labor dispute.[link] In practice, it is only practical to verify whether the worker quit or was fired.

Generally, the worker must be unemployed through no fault of his/her own although workers often file for benefits they are not entitled to; when the employer demonstrates that the unemployed person quit or was fired for cause the worker is required to pay back the benefits they received. The unemployed person must also meet state requirements for wages earned or time worked during an established period of time (referred to as a “base period”) to be eligible for benefits. In most states, the base period is usually the first four out of the last five completed calendar quarters prior to the time that the claim is filed.[workforcesecurity.doleta.gov/unemploy/uifactsheet.asp] Unemployment benefits are based on reported covered quarterly earnings. The amount of earnings and the number of quarters worked are used to determine the length and value of the unemployment benefit. The average weekly in 2010 payment was $293.[www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/08/AR2010030804927.html]

As a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed in February 2009, many unemployed people receive up to 99 weeks of unemployment benefits; this may depend on State legislation. Before the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the maximum number of weeks allowed was 26.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_benefits#cite_note-41)

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• 要求公司layoff -leavestone- ♀ (66 bytes) () 06/30/2015 postreply 23:27:03

• 要求公司layoff難度有點大因為公司不是你說了算。 -xmp11- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/01/2015 postreply 05:05:41

• layoff後去讀學位，是不能拿失業金的。 -加州老李- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/01/2015 postreply 11:13:21