Average Wage Period : Several states calculate the weekly benefit as a percentage of annual wages in the base period. Nearly all states employ a weighted schedule, which gives a bigger proportion of annual wages to lower-paid workers to decide their weekly benefit amount. Formula for calculating weekly benefit amount:. Only the covered wages that crop up during your base period can count toward your weekly benefit amount calculation.
Your base period is the first four of the last five full calendar quarters before you filed your first initial unemployment claim. For instance, if you file a new claim in May, your base year is all four quarters of the major calendar year. The alternate base period is the last four full calendar quarters. If you worked in the 3 month time straight away following the base year shown on your wage and potential benefit report, and you have not by now asked the Employment Department to assess your claim under the provisions of an Alternate Base year, call your Unemployment Insurance Center.
You can only utilize earnings from your base period that are covered wages to decide your weekly benefit amount. The state leaves out self-employment, independent contract work or work that that you paid only through commission under these laws.
A good way to determine if work was covered or not is whether you obtained a tax form or a W-2 tax forms for the work. Base period can be extended up to 4 quarters if the worker is disabled for the majority of a quarter. All states need a worker to have earned a definite amount of wages or to have worked for a definite period of time or both within the base period to be financially eligible to collect any UI benefits.
Most workers are entitled for benefits based on employment and wages in a single state. On the other hand, some workers who work in more than one state will not have sufficient employment and wages in any single state to set up monetary eligibility, or would be qualified for a smaller WBA. Workers with wages and employment in more than one state can opt to file a claim combining wages and employment earned in all states where they worked into a claim filed under the law of any of the states they worked.
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On the first Sunday or Monday after you filed your application, file a claim for the prior week. You can file your claim for the prior week online or by phone on our Weekly Claim Line. If there are any issues on your claim to investigate, be sure to respond to all letters or telephone messages right away.
Continue to make your weekly claims while investigation is in process. It can take three to four weeks to complete the investigation. You may be scheduled to attend an orientation meeting at a WorkSource Oregon office. If you do not go, your benefits will be delayed. The Waiting Week is the first week on your claim in which you meet all eligibility requirements.
You do not receive payment for your waiting week. Every unemployment account must have a Waiting Week before the unemployment department can start making benefit payments.
Important: You must claim the week in order for it to be your Waiting Week. Simply filing your application does not give you credit for your waiting week. Benefits are payable only if you are eligible. Common issues which require investigation and could result in you not receiving benefits include:. If there is a problem, the labor department will contact you either by phone or mail.
They will explain the problem and how it could affect your claim. They will ask you for details about the situation. Please reply quickly if you get a form to complete, a letter asking for information, or a telephone message; your benefits could be delayed until you answer.
If you do not answer at all, they may deny benefits. Continue to make your weekly claims either online or on the Weekly Claim Line while the staff investigate your claim.
The unemployment department will make a decision based on information from you, your employer or other sources. If the decision allows benefits and you meet all eligibility conditions, we pay any benefits you have coming. Any time they deny benefits, they will send you a decision explaining why they denied benefits, for what time period, how to requalify, and how to appeal if you disagree.
Your CID is printed on every document the unemployment department mail you. You can also call your UI Center or notify us in writing of your address change, even if you have stopped reporting. Each January, the labor department mails out Form G, Statement for Recipients of Unemployment Compensation Payments, for use in filing your tax returns. Note: Changing your address in the iMatchskills program or with the Post Office does not change it on your claim record.
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