Indiana Unemployment
You only qualify for unemployment benefits if you are unemployed through no fault of your own. When filing your claim for benefits, be sure to give complete and accurate information about why you are no longer working. You must also< be registered for work to be eligible for benefits.
You may register for work online at www.in.gov/dwd where you will be connected with the information and resources you need to find a job. If you are without internet access, you may register for work at your local WorkOne Center.
Even if you are not eligible for benefits, you may register for work using DWD9's many job search resources. Log on to www.in.gov/dwd or visit your local WorkOne Center to see what DWD has to offer.
Eligibility Requirements
These factors will determine whether you are eligible for unemployment:
- How much money you earned in the base period,
- Why you are unemployed, and
- If you are able, available, and actively seeking full-time work.
Find Out If You Are Eligible For Unemployment Click this link to find out: Am I Eligible To Collect Unemployment Benefits?
Have Your Benefits Run Out? Click this link to find out how to get an unemployment extension: Unemployment Extension
Have A Specific Question? Click this link to get answers to all your Indiana unemployment questions: Indiana Unemployment FAQ
How much money you earned
Your benefit amount depends on how much money you earned while working during your base period. The base period divides the year into four quarters of three months each.
Base Period
Your base period includes the first 4 of the last 5 completed calendar quarters before the week you file an initial claim application for a new benefit year. The wages you earned during this period of time are used to determine if you qualify for benefits and to calculate how much you can be paid. The last quarter worked is called the lag quarter, and no wages from that quarter count in your base period.
To establish a valid claim, you must have total wage credits during your base period that are equal to at least one and one-fourth (1.25) multiplied by your highest quarter wages. You must also have base period wages totaling at least $2,750, with $1,650 of those wages earned in the last six (6) months of the base period.
Why you are unemployed?
You only qualify for UI benefits if you are unemployed through no fault of your own. Following your separation, our online resources (www.in.gov/dwd) and our call center staff can help you understand your rights regarding employment separation. Please have all related information handy when using either of these resources.
If you quit or were fired:
A claims deputy within the agency's administrative office will need to make a determination of whether or not you are eligible for benefits. You must provide fact finding information as part of your online application or submit the fact finding sheet in addition to your paper application.
Your benefit eligibility determination will be based on the fact finding information you provide. Please fill out this information as completely as you can. Your most recent employer and your base period employer(s) may be contacted for information regarding your claim. When this process is complete, you will be sent a Determination of Eligibility.
If you were fired for just cause
If you were fired for just cause you may not qualify for benefits. Just cause includes, but is not limited to:
- Giving false information on a job application,
- Knowingly breaking an employer's rules,
- Unexcused absence or tardiness,
- Purposely damaging the employer's property,
- Refusal to obey employer instructions,
- Reporting to work under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol,
- Consuming drugs and/or alcohol on the job,
- Conduct that threatens the safety of others,
- Conviction and imprisonment for a serious crime, and
- Breach of a duty you owed your employer.
If you quit voluntarily:
If you quit voluntarily without good, work-related reasons, you may not qualify for benefits. Good, work related reasons include, but are not limited to:
- Your employer arbitrarily (unreasonably) changes the terms or conditions
- of your work,
- Safety violations at your work site,
- Harassment, and
- Domestic or family violence.
Some exceptions are made for those who voluntarily leave work for other reasons.
Please visit www.in.gov/dwd for more information on these special conditions, or contact DWD at 1-800-891-6499.Are you able, available, and actively seeking full-time work?
Your benefits could be denied or reduced if you
- Refuse a suitable offer of work,
- Fail to go to a job referral made by your local WorkOne Center,
- Cannot show proof that you are actively searching for work according to work search requirements, or
- You are temporarily not available for work due to illness, injury, leave of absence, or you are on suspension due to work-related misconduct.
- Even if you have a work search waiver, you must be mentally and physically able and available to work.
Your benefits can be reduced by an amount of your weekly benefit amount for each day you are unavailable.
http://www.in.gov/dwd/files/Claimant_Handbook_Final_2009-Jan-20.pdf
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How To File For Unemployment Benefits
Online
https://uplink.in.gov/CSS/CSSLogon.htm
- Click here to access Uplink CSS (Uplink Claimant Self Service) or report to your nearest WorkOne Center to access Uplink CSS.
- Before logging into Uplink CSS or visiting a WorkOne Center to access Uplink CSS, you will need the following information.
- Complete name and address
- Social Security number
- Personal identification (if reporting to a WorkOne Center)
- Your most recent employer's name and address
- The dates you worked for your most recent employer
- The reason you are unemployed.
- IDWD processes your claim.
- You may also be required by Indiana law to register for work through our job match system, IndianaCAREERConnect.com. Click here or report to your nearest WorkOne Center.
Contact Information
Phone
If you would like more information on the Indiana Department of Workforce Development and our programs and services, please contact us at one of the following:
Phone: 1-800-891-6499
8:00 to 5:30 Monday-Tuesday
8:00 to 5:00 Wednesday-Friday
Indiana Government Center South
10 North Senate Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Still Have Questions?
The check out the Indiana Unemployment FAQ for answers.
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If you are separated from your employer through no fault of your own, your separation should be considered a layoff - and therefore you will be eligible for unemployment.
The fact that you also draw a pension check in your name will have an effect on the amount of your unemployment payment. It may reduce it by only a percentage, for example - reduce it by 25-50%, or it could reduce it completely - by 100%. This determination will be made when you apply.
You definitely could be eligible for unemployment. I would suggest that you apply in person so that you can explain your situation to the unemployment counselor.
Let us know how it works out. I hope this helps.
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what was the answer to this question?
Id like an answer to this as well Please.
The Wi UI office said "I should try to contact my former employer and have them call the UI office." Yeah right ...
What can I do to compel my former employer to answer the question so my benefits can be approved ? ? ?
I'm getting rather irritated.
Thank you.
This new law that goes into effect on 7-1-2011 is not clear on what it is saying (Workers employed at a business during a planned short-term shutdown).
What does planned mean and what is short term?
My HR dept. says if we have a job and a call back date then we can't collect, other companies are saying we can't collect for the first week but the ones after we can.
I would like to know beforehand and not just "wait & see what you get" because we count on unemployment.
Thanks
I would be extremely interested to get an actual answer to this, as well as how to get it done.
I am currently in school, taking general education classes, and then applying for the RN program in September 2012. I was laid off from my job about a year ago and decided to go back to school while I was looking for a job. I have been receiving benefits since then, but just last week, without any prior notice, my benefits were totally cut off, although I only used two extensions. I have also heard that unemployment will pay you while you are in college, but have yet to find anyone at the unemployment office to give me an actual answer, or point me in the right direction. Everyone I have ever talked to at the unemployment office, for any reason whatsoever, gives me a different answer for everything.
Two weeks ago I went to the unemployment office and asked about this. The lady I talked to gave me a "school training" packet to fill out. I filled it all out, took the online assessments, and returned it. I was contacted two days after turning it in and was told that I had to be in an actual program, nursing program, for them to pay while in college. After that conversation I called a number for the "claims" department. The lady at the claims department said that as long as I turn in my school schedule, I will continue to recieve benefits, but that is obviously not true. I have been turning in my school schedule since I started classes last January, and my benefits were cut off last week.
If anyone has an answer to this, and how it works and what needs to be done, I would greatly appreciate it.
The second line says Medical - Dischareg with an effective date of 12/4/11. I have been able to file for weekly vouchers but so far they are coming back saying amount paid 0.00. Can anybody explain what the medical able available and medical discharge mean?
Thank you
Just a quick rundown, I was laid off Aug last year to June of this year. I had no problem getting unemployment. June of this year I was able to land a job through a staffing agency. The job contract recently ended so I went back to file for unemployment. On the uplink page their was a link to file a new claim. Clicked the link and filed a new claim. The next day when I loged in the status of claim was pending. I noticed at the bottom of the page where it say in red letters" STOP you must provide information on all the links below" their was a link to reactivate my old EEUC claim from erlier in the year. I clicked the link and submitted that claim. Now when I login my new UI claim, the status says suspended. Do my benafits in my EEUC Claim need to be exhuasted before my new UI claim kicks in?
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I have received state benefits + all four tiers of fed extended. finished last week 1/7/12.
Would like to know how State EB works - the Indiana web site has very little info.
What are the eligibilty requirements? How long till I get a check? How much will I get? What are the job search requirements? Where do I get a application form? etc
The phone numbers for unemployment are just automated messages, you can not talk to a human.
Thanks
George
thank you.
am not sure how this works. Thank you for your time.
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