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Kentucky Unemployment benefits
08/04/09
Kentucky Unemployment benefits
The state of Kentucky Unemployment rate, currently well above the national average has created some detrimental effects on the finances of its residents. Kentucky offers you unemployment so that you are given some means of financing your life until you seek and find additional unemployment.
Kentucky Unemployment Insurance benefits are a temporary solution to the dilemma of not having an income when you are out of work.
Your eligibility for the collection of Unemployment compensation benefits is determined several ways. You must be out of work through no fault of your own to be eligible for unemployment compensation.
You must also be eligible for work and be willing to accept a job if it is found and offered to you. If you turn down a position, even one which pays less than your unemployment benefits you are no longer eligible for benefits under the unemployment compensation.
You must file a claim with the Kentucky Unemployment Office, in order to gain your unemployment benefits. As soon as it is determined that you will be off work for more than a small period of days, you should begin your filing of unemployment papers in order to receive the full amount due to you in as little time as possible. Your filing is not retroactive to your last day of work, but will begin on the first date of filing and proceed from there, meaning that you will only be able to be paid after you’ve filed.
Since your unemployment compensation checks won’t begin to appear until perhaps 3-4 weeks after the initial filing, it is in your best interests to file as soon as possible after your last date of work.
You have certain other rights as well as responsibilities under the laws of Kentucky when it comes to filing for, and receiving benefits from Kentucky Unemployment insurance. Those rights and responsibilities are made clear for you on the Kentucky Unemployment Office web site, along with instructions for filing electronically, as well as offices locations and other contact information for the Kentucky OET.
Kentucky does, as well as most other states now, offer you an extension of your benefits under the Emergency Benefits program which was signed into law, permitting you to gain about 80% of your total unemployment benefits above and beyond your regular UC compensation package. What this means is that you are able, in most states to gain another 13 to 20 weeks of unemployment in addition to your regular unemployment compensation. This was done in response to the higher national unemployment rate.
Kentucky OET web sites can offer more information about what you can expect from the unemployment insurance program in their state, as well as exactly how to file and what to do if your unemployment compensation is denied to you.
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