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.

WEEKLY PAY AUTHORIZATION

You must complete and sign a weekly pay authorization form to claim benefits each week. See Sample Pay Authorization on the following page. A calendar week begins on a Sunday and ends the following Saturday. Your pay authorization form for the first week of unemployment for which you will claim benefits was given to you when you filed your claim in the local office. You should complete and mail it back to the local office where you filed your claim on the Sunday immediately following the day you filed your claim. Please note that if there is an issue involving your claim for benefits, you may be scheduled to report back to your local office with your pay authorization.

You will receive three additional pay authorization forms for the second, third and fourth weeks of your claim. These pay authorization forms must be completed, signed and returned (by mail or by using the claim drop box located at the front of the local office) as soon as possible following the 1'week ending" date indicated on the pay authorization form. Make sure that you submit the correct pay authorization form for the correct week, and make sure your work search (if applicable) was conducted during the same week. Under no circumstances should a pay authorization be submitted prior to the appropriate week ending date!

After you have claimed benefits for four weeks, you should begin to use the pay authorization which will accompany your benefit check to claim the following week of benefits. If you are not receiving benefits by that time and are pending adjudication of your claim or are in appeal status, pay authorization forms will be provided to you by the local office, which should be completed and returned each week.

If you are eligible to receive benefits, your checks will be mailed directly to you after each pay authorization form is processed. The length of time required to process pay authorizations and issue benefit checks varies with the claim load. Every effort will be made to ensure that payments are made as promptly as possible, but allowances must be made for postal handling and internal processing procedures. If you are denied benefits1 you may file an appeal in person or by sending a letter to your local office. See Appeals.

Complete address must be provided for all job contacts.

Please note: Improperly completed pay authorizations may result in a processing delay of your payment.

Sample "Result" Explanations:
Completed application Took name/phone number
Mailed resume Offered job/refused
Told not hiring Not qualified