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Unemployment benefits provide you with temporary income when you lose your job through no fault of your own. The money partly replaces your lost earnings and helps you pay expenses while looking for new work. The benefits, from taxes your former employer(s) paid, are not based on financial need.
Apply for unemployment benefits. Submit a weekly claim. Manage your unemployment benefits claim. Restart a current claim. Pay a benefit overpayment. Look up your past wages. Schedule a required WorkSource appointment.
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How and when to submit a weekly claim. After you apply for unemployment benefits, you must submit a weekly claim the next week in order to begin receiving benefits. Then, you must submit a claim each week until you want your benefits to stop.
By calling 800-318-6022. For current claims center contact information and hours go to: https://esd.wa.gov/unemployment/unemployed-workers-contact. Continue to file your weekly claims as you do now. Although you are living in a different state, Washington state will continue to pay you benefits.
In Washington state, this is how your weekly benefit amount is calculated: Step 1: We add together the gross wages from the two highest quarters in your base year, then we divide by 2. Step 2: Multiply the amount in step 1 by 0.0385.
To determine if you are eligible for unemployment benefits we examine: 1. Whether you worked enough hours in your base year: You must have worked at least 680 hours in your base year. At least some wages must have been earned in Washington, unless you recently left the military and are currently located in Washington state. 2.
You can also update your information in the Claim & Account Center. If your employer is self‑insured, send a written notification to both L&I and your employer or their third-party administrator (TPA).
If you’ve missed filing benefits for: Five or more weeks, you can restart your claim for the current week and optionally request to backdate the reopening in eServices or with a Claims Center agent. Fewer than five weeks, you don ’ t need to restart your claim.
Unemployment benefits give eligible workers a temporary income when they lose their job through no fault of their own. The income is intended to partly replace lost earnings and help workers pay expenses while they look for a new job. Benefits last for up to 26 weeks.