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To be eligible, applicants must have contributed for at least 12 months prior to unemployment or be actively looking for work after a long period of unemployment. The UI is also available to first-time job seekers. Those who do not qualify for the monthly payment are nonetheless eligible for the UI scheme's capacity building programs.
Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.
Discussions of frictional unemployment focus on voluntary decisions to work based on individuals' valuation of their own work and how that compares to current wage rates added to the time and effort required to find a job. Causes and solutions for frictional unemployment often address job entry threshold and wage rates.
Generally, you can still get unemployment benefits if you quit your job for a worthy cause that can be documented. While requirements vary from state to state, certain eligibility rules like these ...
Even though extended federal unemployment benefits ended in September, out-of-work individuals can still access unemployment benefits and retroactive payments. Benefits vary across states, but ...
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For part-time workers out of a job, unemployment eligibility requirements might be harder to achieve depending on your state’s rules. See: 50 Best (and Worst) Cities for an Early Retirement
The unemployment rate (U-6) is a wider measure of unemployment, which treats additional workers as unemployed (e.g., those employed part-time for economic reasons and certain "marginally attached" workers outside the labor force, who have looked for a job within the last year, but not within the last 4 weeks).