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Important Information for Claimants:
Congress Approves Additional Weeks of Emergency Benefits
Legislation was approved guaranteeing an additional 14 weeks of emergency benefits. Pending further legislation, another 6 weeks of emergency benefits could also be provided, for a total of 20 weeks. The first payable week of this new extension is the week ending November 15, 2009. Retroactive payments cannot be made for individuals who exhausted all extended benefits prior to the week ending November 8, 2009. Please continue claiming your weekly benefits to make sure your claim remains active. You do not need to file a new claim unless the system advises you to do so. For additional information about unemployment benefit extensions, click here. To see a chart of additional benefit weeks, click here.
Scheduled Outage of Services
If you are filing a claim or claiming weekly unemployment benefits for the week ending November 15th, 2009, please be aware that our Web & Telephone systems will not be available on Saturday, November 21st from 6:30am to 3:30pm. Please file your claim or claim weekly benefits before this outage starts, or between 3:30 pm and midnight on November 21st.
Important Information for Employers:
Information regarding the COBRA subsidy under the ARRA Stimulus
Click here for the Unemployment Insurance Employer Home Page
I.R.S Changes that may impact your UI account
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