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Unemployment Guides

How to extend Unemployment Benefits beyond initial 26 Weeks

You have lost your job that provided all the financial support. Now what? Obviously this is not the time to doubt in your abilities and feel depressed. Take a step back and use job search links to look for a stable income. But the first thing you need to do is to file for unemployment [...]

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Unemployment Benefits Comparison by State

Unemployment insurance programs are governed by State governments and are funded by state, federal and private companies that pay employment tax. Ultimately, it comes to the state government to balance the checkbook, so the state has to decide the benefits maximum amount, duration, and eligibility to receive the benefits. For this reason, you notice that [...]

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File for Unemployment – The Ultimate Guide

You have lost that precious job that provided all the financial support. Now what? Obviously this is not the time to panic or being depressed. Take a step back, and relax – there is always another job waiting to be hunted for. You can use job search links on this site to look for new [...]

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Unemployment Benefits

This article lists all the benefits that can be claimed by workers who have lost jobs. ©FEMP9 Common perception is that unemployment benefits are temporary cost of living adjustments. Financial assistance is just one part of unemployment insurance benefits. There are several other benefits such as career coaching, job search assistance, extension of unemployment benefits [...]

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Unemployment Benefits Eligibility

More than half of unemployed workers do not claim unemployment benefits because either they think filing for unemployment is a complex process or they may not qualify for the benefits. Contrary to the popular belief, many people do qualify for benefits and state unemployment offices have reduced the amount of necessary paperwork over a period [...]

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Base period for filing unemployment benefits

In the context of unemployment insurance, the “base period” is generally the period of employment prior to losing the job when the employer would have contributed unemployment insurance taxes to the government. Workers must have earned a minimum amount of wages in the base period to be eligible to claim unemployment benefits. Base period will [...]

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