Unemployment Insurance is considered as the temporary or momentary income for people who are looking for new jobs in approved training or awaiting recall from the company and for workers who are unemployed because of no mistakes of theirs. To know more about unemployment check out our Unemployment Insurance guide.
Extended Unemployment Insurance
In case if an unemployed worker has exhausted his regular Unemployment Insurance Benefits, Extended Benefits assist him/her by providing additional compensation.
Let us look in details of some benefits that are available under current legislation:
Various unemployment benefits are available in Kansas:
An unemployed worker has the benefit of claiming the unemployment compensation up to 86 weeks; let us look in details on each terms and conditions.
Regular Unemployment Benefits
The revenue is funded 100% with State UI Trust Fund and is available up to 26 weeks. Remember the duration depends upon employment history and his earning.
Eligibility Requirements to be fulfilled to claim this benefit:
Available for up to 26 weeks (length depends on employment history and earnings). To receive unemployment benefits, you must be:
- Active Seeking, Able and available to work
- Unemployed due to no fault of your own
This Program was initiated on July 6, 2008, hence known as (EUC 08) Benefits. The revenue for this is 100 % funded by Federal Funds and is available up to 20 weeks of extended unemployment benefits.
Eligibility Requirements to be fulfilled to claim this benefit:
- Filing a valid UI claim, fully or partially unemployed while filing the claim
- Claimant should have had 20 weeks duration of full time backup or the earned equivalent insured wages and need to fulfill other criteria’s such as being ready, willing and able to work.
This program provided up-to 13+1 weeks of additional benefits, as per the legislation pass on November 2009 one week extension is effective and the revenue is funded 100% by Federal Funds.
Eligibility Requirements to be fulfilled to claim this benefit:
- If you are receiving EUC Tier I benefits, then you are likely to be eligible for Tier II benefits also.
- As the benefits will roll over from Tier I to Tier II, theclaimants will not need to fill out an additional application if he/she is not eligible for a new state unemployment insurance claim in any state or in Canada.
Tier III EUC Benefits
This program provided up to 13 weeks of additional benefits and the revenue is funded 100% by Federal Funds.
Eligibility Requirements to be fulfilled to claim this benefit:
- Claimant should have been exhausted of regular state’s original extended unemployment compensation and tier II EUC benefits.
- He/ she should not have been qualified for new state’s unemployment insurance claim in any way.
To know more about Kansas unemployment check out our Kansas Unemployment Benefits guide.
State Extended Benefits
This program provided upto 13 weeks of additional benefits and the revenue is funded 100% by Federal Funds.
Eligibility Requirements to be fulfilled to claim this benefit:
- Claimant should not be eligible for a new state’s unemployment insurance claim in any state including Canada.
- The State Extended Benefits program “triggers on” when Kansas seasonally adjusts unemployment rate to meet certain criteria.
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