unemplogo.jpg (50480 bytes) The Division of Unemployment Insurance serves workers who are unemployed through no fault of their own by providing temporary income maintenance during their period of unemployment and making referrals to re-employment services.

The Division also serves employers by ensuring that only those unemployed individuals meeting all eligibility criteria receive UI benefits, thereby protecting future increases in employer tax rates and the solvency of Delaware’s UI Trust Fund.

ACTIVE WORK SEARCH

Eligibility to receive benefits is dependent upon your showing that you have made a reasonable effort to find work each week. You will be required to make at least one work search contact each week and indicate the employer name, address, type of work sought, result of the contact and the date in item B on the back of your weekly pay authorization form. While it is often necessary to return to a previously contacted employer, a new work contact must also be made on a weekly basis. See Sample Pay Authorization on the previous page. If you are required to make an active work search during a week, and fail to do so, you will be ineligible to receive benefits for that week.