Am I Eligible For Unemployment? Following a job loss or after suffering a reduction of weekly work hours, the last thing you feel like doing is trying to figure out whether you qualify for unemployment benefits. Unfortunately, it is vital that you take the time to properly find the answer to the important question: “Am [...]
Federal Unemployment The United States unemployment insurance programs available throughout the country are a hybrid structure. The federal government has set forth the general parameters and outlines of the country’s unemployment benefits and has left each individual state to determine for itself how to fill in many of the details. Despite individual state differences much [...]
Unemployment Insurance Both state governments and the United States federal governments offer unemployment insurance benefits. Unemployment insurance (“UI”) payments are available to individuals who are forced to work reduced hours or have lost their job through no fault of their own. The job loss can be due to any number of reasons, including broad layoffs, [...]
Unemployment Claim Weeks Because of several different legislative changes by the United States Congress throughout the past couple of years there is a lot of confusion as to how many unemployment claim weeks an individual can receive unemployment benefits for. There is also a lot of misunderstanding on how the state unemployment offices interact with [...]
