Tier 3 EUC (Emergency Unemployment Compensation) Now Available
- Beginning with the week of November 8 - November 14, 2009, unemployed Delaware workers will be eligible for up to fourteen additional weeks of unemployment insurance benefits under the provisions of the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program. These additional weeks of benefits have become available under legislation signed by President Obama on Friday, November 6. This latest extension of unemployment insurance benefits provides up to thirteen weeks of benefits under a new Tier 3 level of EUC and one additional week of benefits under the existing Tier 2 level of EUC. The Division of Unemployment Insurance will mail notices with information and instructions to individuals who may be entitled to these additional weeks of benefits if they are still unemployed. The additional weeks of EUC increase the number of weeks of unemployment insurance benefits now available to unemployed Delaware workers from a maximum of 79 weeks to maximum of 93 weeks.

Extended Benefits (EB) Goes from 13 to 20 Weeks
- Beginning with the week of August 2, unemployed Delaware workers will be eligible for up to twenty (20) additional weeks of unemployment insurance benefits under the provisions of the Extended Benefits (EB) program, instead of thirteen (13) weeks of EB. As unemployed Delaware workers exhaust their EUC (Emergency Unemployment Compensation), they will now be able to file for 20 weeks of EB. These additional weeks of benefits have become available pursuant to legislation (Senate Bill 156) that was signed into law by Governor Markell.

The additional weeks of EB increase the number of weeks of unemployment insurance benefits now available to unemployed Delaware workers from a maximum of 72 weeks to a maximum of 79 weeks. Individuals who filed EB claims prior to August 2, 2009 will automatically have their EB claims adjusted for the additional seven weeks and will be mailed monetary redeterminations about their EB entitlement.

Extended Benefits (EB) Now Available
- Beginning with the week of June 28 - July 4, 2009, unemployed Delaware workers will be eligible for up to thirteen additional weeks of unemployment insurance benefits under the provisions of the Extended Benefits (EB) program. As unemployed Delaware workers exhaust their EUC (Emergency Unemployment Compensation), they will now be able to file for 13 weeks of EB. These additional weeks of benefits have become available pursuant to legislation (Senate Bill 156) that was signed into law by Governor Markell.

The Division of Unemployment Insurance will mail notification about EB and instructions for filing for these benefits to individuals at time their final EUC payment is issued. These additional weeks of benefits increase the number of weeks of unemployment insurance benefits now available to unemployed Delaware workers from a maximum of 59 weeks to a maximum of 72 weeks.

Tier 2 EUC (Emergency Unemployment Compensation) Now Available
- Beginning with the week of March 29-April 4, 2009, unemployed Delaware workers will be eligible for up to thirteen additional weeks of unemployment insurance benefits under the provisions of the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program.
These additional weeks of benefits have become available under the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 that was enacted last November and provides for a Tier 2 level of EUC if certain economic conditions exist in a state. Specifically, Delaware now qualifies for a Tier 2 level of EUC because the state's three-month seasonally adjusted total unemployment rate (TUR) is now equal to or greater than 6.0%.
The Division of Unemployment Insurance will mail notices with information and instructions to individuals who have already exhausted the 20 weeks of EUC that were initially available to them and may now be entitled to these additional weeks of benefits if they are still unemployed. Notices will also be mailed to individuals who are currently collecting EUC when they exhaust their initial 20 weeks of these benefits.
These additional weeks of benefits increase the number of weeks of EUC now available to unemployed Delaware workers from a maximum of 20 weeks to a maximum of 33 weeks.

Extension of Unemployment Insurance Benefits
- On June 30, 2008, President Bush signed Public Law 110-252, the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008. Title IV of this legislation created the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program that will provide up to thirteen weeks of additional unemployment insurance benefits for unemployed workers who have exhausted their regular state unemployment insurance benefits on an initial claim filed with an effective date of May 7, 2006 or later. EUC benefits will be available from the week ending July 12, 2008 through the week ending July 4, 2009 under this legislation. The Division of Unemployment Insurance will mail notices about the EUC program to individuals who may be entitled to these additional benefits if they are currently unemployed.

Expansion of the Extension of Unemployment Insurance Benefits
- On Friday, November 21, 2008, President Bush signed the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 that amends Title IV of the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2008 that was enacted this past June. Title IV of that legislation created the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program. Under the provisions of this latest legislation, unemployed Delaware workers are now eligible for up to seven additional weeks of extended unemployment insurance benefits through an expansion of the EUC program that will run through the end of August 2009. As a result, the number of weeks of EUC benefits now available to unemployed Delaware workers has been increased from a maximum of 13 weeks to a maximum of 20 weeks. The Division of Unemployment Insurance will mail notices about the expansion of the EUC program to individuals who may be entitled to these additional benefits.