How Do I Qualify For Unemployment Insurance Benefits?

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How Do I Qualify For Unemployment Insurance Benefits?

To qualify for Unemployment Insurance benefits, you must:

Be fully or partially unemployed
Be unemployed through no fault of your own
Be able to work
Be available for work
Be actively seeking work
Have earned enough wages to establish a monetary entitlement: You must have base period earnings equal to or exceeding one and onehalf times the high quarter earnings, or wages in each of at least three of the four quarters in the past base period. In both conditions, you must earn at least $400 in the high quarter.

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