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Unemployment
Insurance (UI)
Services Division

 

Unemployment Insurance Services

LeLoie Dutemple, Division Administrator

W-2's for 2009 Unemployment
will be mailed by the deadline of January 31, 2010.

Governor Culver Announces Deadline Extension for Emergency Unemployment Insurance Benefits - Governor Chet Culver announced today that President Obama has signed legislation allowing the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program to continue beyond the original Dec. 31 program end date. This will protect nearly 30,000 Iowans from losing their benefits during the first part of 2010. 

IWD Announces Additional Emergency Unemployment Insurance Benefits - Director Elisabeth Buck announced today that approximately 20,000 notices will be mailed from Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) to Iowans who may be eligible for the additional emergency unemployment insurance benefits of up to 14 weeks, if their previous benefits are currently exhausted.

Iowa’s Employer Unemployment Insurance Contribution Rates Increase - First Time In Eight Years - Iowa Workforce Development announced that the unemployment contribution rate for employers will be adjusted on January 1, 2010 to keep the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund at sufficient levels to adequately provide for unemployment benefits.

Extended Training Benefits and Department Approved Training
You can go to school and still receive unemployment insurance benefits!  There are two options available for training - Department Approved Training (DAT) and Training Extension Benefits (TEB)...

Iowan's Jobless and Injury Benefits Increase - Maximum weekly benefits paid to jobless Iowans and to workers injured on the job will increase July 5, 2009, announced Iowa Workforce Development.

Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) For Unemployment Insurance Claimants

IWD Announces Additional Emergency Unemployment Insurance Benefits - Des Moines – Director Elisabeth Buck announced today that notices will be mailed from Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) to approximately 9,000 Iowans who may be eligible for the additional emergency unemployment insurance benefits of up to 13 weeks, if their previous benefits are currently exhausted.

IWD Announces Emergency Unemployment Insurance Benefits for Displaced Iowans - Des Moines – Notices will be mailed from Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) to the nearly 74,000 Iowans who may be eligible for the emergency unemployment insurance benefits.

Notice of Intended Action
This proposed rule is currently in the rules review process and Iowa Workforce Development welcomes your input.

Alternate Base Period

An individual who lacks qualified earnings on a regular unemployment benefit claim can request an alternate base period and may be eligible for unemployment benefits. The base period is one year of wages which determines eligibility for unemployment benefits. The alternate base period allows an individual to use the most recent 3 month quarter of wages to establish eligibility for unemployment benefits. The individual must have earned at least $640 in one base period quarter and lack qualified earnings. Iowa Workforce Development will notify an individual of eligibility for an alternate base period and the individual may then request substitution of quarters within 10 calendar days. The individual will need to provide information concerning the wages, employer, and check stubs or proof of earnings for the most recent 3 month quarter which is prior to the claim. The alternate base period allows an individual to receive unemployment benefits based upon their most recent employment.              Businesswoman                              

The Unemployment Insurance Services Division of Iowa Workforce Development provides services to businesses, workers and the citizens of Iowa by collecting unemployment insurance taxes, maintaining the Iowa Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund, and making payments to eligible jobless workers.

Unemployment insurance replaces part of the income workers lose when they become unemployed through no fault of their own. Unemployment insurance softens the economic impact job losses have on communities by maintaining purchasing power in the area where workers live.

 BusinessmanEmployers pay the money for unemployment benefits. No contributions for unemployment insurance come from employee wages.

Anyone who is no longer working, or is working substantially fewer hours, and has worked and earned wages in work covered by unemployment insurance (this determination is made by Iowa Workforce Development) in the last 15 to 18 months may file an application for unemployment insurance benefits.


Employers and Employees