Integrated Recovery Guide - Job Training: Unemployment Insurance

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Unemployment Insurance

Included provisions to extend the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program and provides $25 more a week in Unemployment Insurance benefits to recipients

Administrator: New Mexico Department of Labor

Description: Unemployment Insurance (UI) is temporary income for workers who are unemployed through no fault of their own and who are either looking for new jobs, in approved training, or awaiting recall to employment. Regular UI is a state funded program that provides up to 26 weeks of benefits. Emergency UI is a federal funded program created in 2008 to provide additional benefits of up to 33 weeks of benefits for those living in states with high unemployment. Both are administered by the New Mexico Department of Labor.

Encourage Unemployment Insurance (UI) Modernization: would provide up to $7 billion to reward and encourage States enacting specific reforms designed to increase UI coverage among low-wage, part-time and other jobless workers, as well as provide an additional $500 million in UI administrative funding.

Provisions: The current federally-funded emergency UI program (which provides up to 33 weeks of extended benefits) is scheduled to begin to phase out at the end of March 2009. The proposal would use general revenues to extend the program through December 31, 2009.

The proposal would provide federal funding to increase both regular and emergency unemployment benefits by $25 a week through calendar year 2009.

Information: http://www.wia.state.nm.us/dws-mainoffice.html

Online Form: https://uiclaims.state.nm.us/uiclaim/html/UICHome.html

Tel Contact: (505) 841-4000

Inquiries: (505) 841-8405 NMDWS

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