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Frequently Asked Questions: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and Unemployment Insurance Benefits for Workers

Questions and Answers

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Question one: Can I become unemployment benefits if I am laid off due to issues related to the Coronavirus (COVID-19)?

Reply: Yes. Iowa unemployment benefits are available to individuals who are unemployed through no mistake of their ain. If an employer must shut down operations and no work is bachelor, its employees would exist eligible for unemployment benefits if they see the monetary criteria.

Question 2: If my employer permanently lays off employees due to the loss of production caused by COVID-19, will the employees exist eligible for unemployment insurance benefits?

Respond: Yeah. Benefits are bachelor to any individual who is unemployed through no mistake of their own. If an employer must lay off employees due to the loss of product acquired by COVID-19, individuals may exist eligible for unemployment benefits if they meet the monetary criteria.

Question 3: If my employer temporarily lays off employees due to any loss or lack of work due to COVID-xix, will the employees be eligible for unemployment insurance benefits?

Respond: Yes. Iowa constabulary allows for an employee to be on temporary layoff when work is not bachelor.

Question iv: Tin my employer require me to stay home for the COVID-nineteen incubation period? Reply: Yes. Your employer can require you to stay at dwelling house for 14 days if you accept traveled abroad or had contact with someone who visited an affected region. Delight contact your employer regarding potential telecommuting, sick exit, paid fourth dimension off ("PTO"), Family & Medical Get out Deed ("FMLA"), Disability and other options they may exist offering. If paid time off is not available, you may exist eligible for Pandemic Unemployment Assist ("PUA").

More information and instructions on how to use for PUA are available at: https://www.iowaworkforcedevelopment.gov/pua-information.

Question v: If my employer requires me to stay home due to traveling to or being in contact with someone who visited an affected region, am I eligible for unemployment?

Answer: Yes. Your employer can crave you to stay at abode for xiv days if you take traveled to or had contact with someone who visited an affected region. Please contact your employer regarding potential telecommuting, ill go out, PTO, FMLA, Disability and other options they may be offer. If paid time off is not bachelor, y'all may be eligible for PUA.

Question 6: If I am in mandatory quarantine because of suspicion of having COVID-19, will I be eligible for unemployment benefits?

Answer: Eligibility will exist determined on a case by case state of affairs. If the suspicion of having COVID-19 is legitimate and the facts testify in that location is a high likelihood of beingness infected, you may be eligible for benefits for the incubation period of the virus. Please contact your employer regarding potential telecommuting, ill go out, PTO, FMLA, Disability and other options they may exist offer.

Question vii: If I am sick because of COVID-nineteen and unable to work, will I be eligible for unemployment benefits?

Answer: Not for country or regular unemployment benefits.  Delight contact your employer regarding potential telecommuting, sick leave, PTO, FMLA, Inability and other options they may be offer..

Question viii: If my employer shuts downward the business operations because some other employee is ill with COVID-xix, would I be eligible for benefits?

Answer: Yes, you would be eligible for benefits.

Question 9: If I am unable to work due to my employer shutting downward due to health concerns related to the COVID-nineteen, exercise I need to consummate work searches?

Answer:  The work search requirement will be reinstated on September 8, 2022 for all claimants except as noted below.  The piece of work search must be a reasonable and honest effort to find suitable work and claimants must complete a minimum of 2 job contacts a week unless the work search requirement is waived. By conducting work searches, claimants are likely to find employment quicker. If claimants refuse a job offer, they may lose their unemployment benefits. IWD had previously waived the work search requirement for those impacted by layoffs and reductions in work hours since the beginning of the pandemic.  We have likewise posted updates on our website regarding work search requirements.  There are currently over 58,000 job openings at https://www.iowaworks.gov.

Question 10: What if my employer reduces the hours of work considering business has slowed down, volition I still be eligible for benefits?

Answer: Maybe. Iowa allows for fractional unemployment benefits. You need to report your gross wages earned each week when making your weekly claim for benefits.  This type of income includes: wages; holiday pay; sick leave; stand-by pay; tips, gratuities, commission, and incentive pay; and, any compensation other than cash (i.eastward. room and lath, cell telephone). You may earn up to 25 percentage of your weekly do good amount ("WBA") before the benefit payment is reduced, but at that place is still a requirement to report all earnings even if under 25 percent. Earnings college than 25 percent volition reduce your benefit payment.   If you lot earn $fifteen or more over your WBA, you volition not receive a benefit payment for that calendar week.  For example:

Your WBA is $400 and you earn $370.

25% of $400 is $100. $100 is not deducted from the WBA.

$370 - $100 = $270. The remaining $270 is deducted from the WBA.

$400 - $270 = $130.

$130 is the payment amount for the week.

Question 11: I was laid off due to COVID-19. I used some vacation fourth dimension during this layoff; practice I need to report this if I file for unemployment?

Answer: Vacation pay is reportable for unemployment insurance purposes. Please refer to the answer above.

Question 12: How will Iowa Workforce Evolution ("IWD") know if I have correctly reported my wages?

Reply: Any claim filed is subject to audit or investigation.  Your employer reports wages paid to each employee every quarter.  IWD has a reckoner program that cantankerous matches wages paid and wages reported when a claim is filed.  If IWD determines that y'all fraudulently reported wages, you will be overpaid benefits and will be discipline to a 15% penalisation, ineligibility for hereafter benefits, and criminal prosecution.

Question 13: I am eligible for country benefits due to a layoff with my regular employer but also have cocky-employment income.  What exercise I need to report on my weekly claim?

Answer:   You lot just need to written report gross wages you receive from an employer.  You practice non demand to report your self-employment income.

Question fourteen: I accidentally misreported my earnings and received unemployment benefits that I shouldn't have.  How tin can I repay the money?

Answer: If y'all haven't already, you will need to report the error to IWD.  We will demand to know which weeks were reported incorrectly and how much money should have been reported for each week.  Upon receiving this information, we will send yous an overpayment decision letter of the alphabet indicating the amount owed.  Once you receive this decision letter, you will be able to repay the overpayment.  For details on how to repay the overpayment, visit: https://www.iowaworkforcedevelopment.gov/unemployment-insurance-overpayment-and-recovery.

Question xv: I am self-employed and receiving PUA benefits. It will take time before my business will build dorsum to pre-pandemic levels.  Am I however eligible for benefits?

Respond: Perhaps.  Partial benefits are available under PUA.  And so long as the reduced income is nevertheless related to a COVID-19 reason, you would still authorize. If you accept income of $15 or more over your WBA, you volition non receive a benefit payment for that calendar week. Yous should study any gross income earned or that you look to earn for services performed that week and gross income received that week for services provided prior to filing for unemployment insurance benefits.

Gross income, for a self-employed individual, is the income received that week as described above minus normal business expenses.  To determine your business expenses on a weekly ground, take the business organisation expenses identified on your 2022 Schedule C and divide that number by 52, which gives you lot the boilerplate weekly business expenses.  For purposes of reporting income on your weekly claim for PUA, the average weekly business expense is deductible from the income received.

Question xvi: I am self-employed and receiving PUA benefits, how will IWD know if I have correctly reported my income?

Answer: IWD volition be auditing and investigating claims that have been filed.  You lot certify on each claim you file that you are providing accurate and truthful information.  If you are found to accept fraudulently claimed unemployment benefits y'all could exist subject to civil and criminal penalties.

Question 17: I am a substitute, on-telephone call, or every bit needed (PRN) employee.  Am I eligible for unemployment benefits?

Answer:  You lot are probably not eligible for country unemployment benefits.  If your base period consists only of substitute, on-call, or PRN employment, y'all cannot run into the definitions of totally, partially, or temporarily unemployed under Iowa law. Even so, yous may be eligible for state benefits if you have other wage credits in your base period earned from full or function-time employment.

Question xviii: Is COVID-19 considered a disaster, and can I receive Disaster Unemployment Assistance ("DUA") if I am not eligible for unemployment insurance benefits?

Reply: A disaster has not been declared by the President for private help. If the president of the Us declares the COVID-nineteen a national disaster, and if y'all experience a loss of piece of work in Iowa equally a result, you may exist eligible for unemployment benefits and/or DUA.

Question 19: What if I contract COVID-19 while on the job; would I be eligible for benefits? Answer: Please contact your employer regarding potential telecommuting, sick leave, PTO, FMLA, Inability, Worker'south Compensation and other options they may be offering.

Question 20: What if I have COVID-nineteen and take to quit, am I eligible for benefits?

Answer: Each situation will exist handled based on the facts of the separation. You can file for unemployment insurance benefits if yous are laid off or separated from your employer and you are not currently working. A determination will be fabricated based on the reason for separation.

Question 21: I have returned to work merely think my piece of work surround is unsafe, can I quit and still go unemployment benefits?  I do not have a pre-existing medical condition or any COVID-19 related illness.

Answer:   You should kickoff talk with your employer about your concerns and, if necessary, your doctor.  If your employer is taking steps to create a safer workplace, for example, providing actress wash stations, additional sanitation, PPE such as masks or gloves, or post-obit social distancing recommendations, you probably will not exist eligible for unemployment benefits if you choose to quit employment.  If your employer is refusing to follow safety measures and OSHA guidelines recommended by state or federal governments for your manufacture, and so you may be able to receive unemployment benefits.  Yet, whether y'all are eligible for unemployment benefits is very fact specific and will be adamant on a case-by-case ground.  Your eligibility will be adamant with a fact-finding interview regardless of the do good for which y'all may be eligible.

Question 22:  What if I believe my workplace is dangerous and I have a pre-existing or underlying medical condition that makes me loftier risk for COVID-19?  Tin can I quit then and nonetheless get unemployment benefits?

Answer:   Y'all should talk with your dr. and your employer about your concerns.  If your employer denies you an objectively reasonable accommodation required by your medico due to a preexisting medical condition, or if is unable to provide you a safety working environment (such as working from habitation), you probably will be eligible for unemployment benefits if you choose to quit employment should your employer pass up to continue your furlough.

Question 23: What if I have a fear of piece of work, or doing my task because I fear that I may come into contact with COVID-xix. I don't have an underlying medical condition; I simply don't want to work while this is going on. If I exit work or reject to piece of work would I be eligible for benefits?

Answer: Should you choose not to attend work, or render to piece of work, this would be considered a voluntary quit, job abandonment, or refusal to return to work. Please contact your employer regarding potential telecommuting, sick leave, PTO, FMLA, Disability and other options they may be offering. If yous do not qualify for paid leave, you lot will be required to work and if you quit instead, yous will non be eligible for unemployment benefits.

Question 24: What does information technology mean to be caring for a family member or fellow member of my household who is ill with COVID-19?

Answer: With regard to PUA eligibility, it means the intendance they demand requires such ongoing and abiding attention that your ability to perform other work functions is severely limited.  If you are assisting a family unit member or member of your household who is able to adequately care for them self, you are not providing care to an extent that would make you eligible for PUA. The final payable week for PUA is June 12, 2021.

Question 25: My child is unable to get to school or daycare.  There is another family member or member of the household who can care for the child.  Can I choose to stay home and still be eligible for unemployment benefits?

Answer: No.  Y'all would not be considered able to and bachelor for work under state benefits.  In society to be eligible for PUA benefits, you must lack necessary childcare.  If you have other child care options bachelor, then y'all do not meet the PUA eligibility qualifications.  The final payable week for PUA is June 12, 2021.

Question 26: I was unable to work because my kid's school closed.  The school year has ended and their normal daycare has reopened.  Tin can I keep them out of daycare and proceed to receive benefits?

Answer: No. You are no longer unemployed due to a COVID-19 related reason because your child would non exist in school regardless of the pandemic.  You lot demand to rely on your normal summertime child care.  If your normal summer kid intendance provider has non reopened, you may still be eligible for PUA.  The last payable week for PUA is June 12, 2021.

Question 27: I am off work for one of the COVID-19-related reasons and I had a fact-finding interview.  Why am I receiving a decision denying benefits because I am not able to and available for work?

Answer: If the decision does not mention Pandemic Unemployment Assistance or PUA, information technology'south a conclusion nigh whether you are eligible for state or regular unemployment benefits.  Country benefits require yous to exist able to and available for work.  Under PUA, you need to be able to and available for work but for one of the COVID-19 related reasons.

You are only eligible for PUA if you are not eligible for state benefits.  We have to determine your eligibility for state benefits earlier we can consider your eligibility for PUA. You lot accept the right to appeal the decision yous received.  However, you just demand to appeal the determination if you disagree with the reason for which you were denied benefits.

If you lot are denied state benefits, please visit: https://www.iowaworkforcedevelopment.gov/pua-information and scroll down to "Submit Proof Here."  You will fill out the questionnaire regarding the reason you are not working, but you are not required to submit boosted proof of income.  Your claim volition be reviewed for PUA eligibility.  Whatsoever overpayment of country benefits volition be covered past the dorsum PUA benefits for which you lot would exist eligible.

Question 28: Do I demand to entreatment the decision denying regular unemployment benefits in order to exist eligible for any other CARES Act benefits?

Answer: You lot accept the right to appeal the decision if you disagree with the reason for the denial decision.  However, you do not need to appeal the determination to employ for boosted CARES Act benefits.

Question 29: I believe that I may make more money on unemployment benefits than I would working, tin I decide to proceed unemployment?

Answer: No. Yous must be laid off, temporarily laid off, or have reduced hours from your employer to authorize for benefits. Should you walk off the chore, refuse to work, or turn down to return to piece of work without being eligible for paid leave; you will be disqualified for benefits. Leaving employment solely to collect unemployment benefits is fraud and could result in a loss of benefits also as criminal and ceremonious penalties.

Question 30: I am called back to piece of work and my employer wants to make changes to the way I practise my job.  Can I quit and receive unemployment insurance benefits?

Reply: Y'all may exist eligible to receive unemployment benefits if there is a substantial change in the contract of hire and you lot quit your position.  For example, if the employer reduces your pay by 25 to 30%, permanently changes your assigned shift without your understanding, moves you to a new facility with a essentially longer commute, or other drastic modification to the type of work for which y'all were hired, information technology would constitute a substantial change in your contract of hire.  However, minor changes, for example, moving to a new line, working one or ii extra hours a twenty-four hours, or changing your piece of work location in the aforementioned facility, etc., likely would non constitute a alter in the contract of hire and yous would non be eligible for unemployment benefits.  The consequence of what is substantial is very fact specific and is determined on a case-by-case basis.

Question 31: If I am paid unemployment insurance benefits, and subsequently it is determined that I am disqualified from those benefits, will I need to pay dorsum the benefits I received?

Respond: Yes. If the concluding decision is that you are non eligible, you will have to return those benefits.

Question 32: If it is determined that I have committed fraud past withholding relevant facts related to my claim, what happens?

Answer: If y'all are adamant to have committed a fraud to obtain unemployment insurance benefits, yous will be referred for criminal prosecution. You lot will also exist unable to utilise for benefits once more until you have repaid those benefits plus the 15% federally mandated punishment on the fraudulently obtained benefits.

Question 33: If I am currently receiving unemployment benefits and am unable to find a job due to companies not hiring because of COVID-19, am I eligible for an extension?

Respond: The CARES Act includes Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation ("PEUC") which extends benefits for claimants who take exhausted their state unemployment benefits and their claim has not expired. The Continued Assistance Act extended the programme and added boosted weeks.   For more information, delight visit: https://www.iowaworkforcedevelopment.gov/peuc-data.   The last payable week for PEUC is June 12, 2021.

Question 34: I was diagnosed with COVID-19, and I was hospitalized and/or quarantined. My employer fired me for not showing up to piece of work or calling them. Am I eligible for benefits under this scenario?

Reply: This scenario would exist treated as a separation and would exist adjudicated according to Iowa Unemployment Law. If you were not eligible nether state law, y'all would probable exist eligible for benefits nether PUA.  The last payable week for PUA is June 12, 2021.

Question 35: I was peradventure exposed to COVID-19 and my employer establish out and told me not to come to work for 2 weeks. Am I eligible for benefits since my employer won't let me come up into work? Answer: You should work with your employer on what leave may exist bachelor during the time they volition non let yous render to piece of work. If paid time off is not bachelor, you lot may be eligible for unemployment benefits.

Question 36: What if my dependent, family member or child has school cancellations and I have to stay abode and care for them, would I be eligible for unemployment?

Answer: Please contact your employer regarding potential telecommuting. You are well-nigh likely eligible for paid get out for two weeks under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). Yous must contact your employer to provide the necessary documentation regarding your situation. If telecommuting or paid exit is not bachelor, y'all may file for unemployment insurance benefits.  If you are non eligible for land benefits, you may withal be eligible for benefits under PUA.  The last payable week for PUA is June 12, 2021.

Question 37: I am not eligible for state unemployment benefits due to a prior separation from employment or because I am not able to and bachelor for work due to a COVID-19 reason, am I still eligible for benefits nether the CARES Act?

Respond: Maybe.  If you are non eligible to receive state benefits, you need to utilise for PUA.   For more than information delight visit: https://www.iowaworkforcedevelopment.gov/pua-data.  You will get to Footstep 3 and fill out the questionnaire when you select to "Submit Proof of Income."

Question 38: If I am eligible, when would I receive my $300 additional payment?

Answer: The $300 payment has started issuing on most eligible claims which includes near unemployment benefits except preparation extension benefits and concern closure benefits.  If you have elected to have taxes withheld from your benefits, your payment will be reduced.  If yous believe your claim is eligible for the additional $300 and you have non received it, please contact client service at uiclaimshelp@iwd.iowa.gov.

Question 39: When is the $300 additional payment going to end?

Answer:  Federal Pandemic Unemployment Bounty (FPUC) payment of $300 volition end in Iowa on June 12, 2021. If you were eligible for the $300 additional payment on any prior weeks, you will withal receive those back payments.

Question 40: If I am eligible and receive my $300 benefit, exercise I still get my full unemployment?

Answer: Yes, the $300 benefit is in improver to unemployment, and information technology is not deducted from the weekly benefit amount that yous would receive. Run into Question 38 for information regarding the expiration of the FPUC program.

Question 41: If I receive the FPUC additional per week payment or any other federal benefit payment and it is later determined that I should not have received it, do I have to repay the money?

Answer: Yep, if yous receive whatever unemployment insurance benefit payment and it is later determined that you were non eligible to receive information technology, you will exist required to repay.  See Question 38 for information regarding the expiration of the FPUC program.

Question 42: If I am disqualified from receiving country or federal unemployment benefits, will I nevertheless receive payment from the federal additional per week payment?

Reply: No. You must be eligible for state or federal unemployment insurance benefits to be eligible to receive the boosted payment per week.  See Question 38 for information regarding the expiration of the FPUC program.

Question 43: How did the Continued Assist Human action signed into police force on December 27, 2022 touch on FPUC benefits?

Answer:  As stated in the answer to Question 39, the $600 payments nether the FPUC program authorized past the CARES Act ended on July 25, 2020.  The Continued Help Act reauthorized and modified the FPUC program.  It provides $300 per week in supplemental benefits for weeks of unemployment kickoff later on December 26, 2022 through the week ending on September iv, 2021.  Iowa will be ending the $300 additional payment with the week ending June 12, 2021.

Question 44: What about the gap in the FPUC program between weeks of unemployment catastrophe after July 31, 2022 through weeks of unemployment catastrophe on or before December 26, 2020?

Answer: FPUC is non payable with respect to whatsoever week during the gap.

Question 45: If needed, would RESEA and/or Promise Jobs appointments be able to be conducted via phone call?

Answer: We are working through guidance related to programs and the use of technology for service delivery and will update as soon as that is available.

Question 46: If colleges continue to close or become online only, how will that bear on the local function as far as partner staff?

Answer: Title I Developed, Confused Worker, and Youth programs, as well every bit the Merchandise Aligning Aid ("TAA") program, continue to provide services to Iowans during this unprecedented fourth dimension.  Services should exist provided most and over the phone as applicative.

Question 47: With colleges considering closing and moving to all online courses. What volition happen if Title I partners follow that social club and exercise not come into the centers?

Answer: Title I Developed, Confused Worker, and Youth programs, as well as the TAA program, continue to provide services to Iowans during this unprecedented time.  Services should be provided virtually and over the phone every bit applicative.

Question 48: I am a teacher who is non working during a normally scheduled break. Am I eligible for unemployment benefits?

Answer: No, non during a scheduled break, if you have reasonable assurance you will remain employed in the aforementioned or similar manner after the break ends. However, if your employer recalls you, you must be able to return to piece of work. If you are non able to return to piece of work upon recall, your eligibility for benefits could be questioned. If you are filing for benefits and do not take reasonable assurance of connected employment post-obit the pause, you may be eligible for state benefits, provided y'all run across all other eligibility requirements.

Question 49: I am a teacher who is off of work due to COVID-nineteen, non a scheduled break. Am I eligible for unemployment insurance benefits during the time my schoolhouse is closed?

Reply: Possibly. If the schoolhouse is going to go along paying y'all and then you would need to report your weekly earnings during this time and will likely have also much income to qualify for benefits. If the school district will non be paying you then aye, you could be potentially eligible for benefits. However, if your employer recalls you to piece of work, you must be able to return. Otherwise your eligibility could be questioned.

Question 50: I am a instructor's adjutant/ para educator and my school is closed. I will not exist paid for the time my school is closed. Am I eligible for unemployment insurance benefits?

Answer: If you are on a scheduled school break such as Leap Suspension week, yous will not be eligible for that week. If you lot are not on a scheduled intermission then you would be eligible for benefits. However, if your employer recalls you, yous must be able to render to work. If y'all are not able to return to piece of work upon recollect your eligibility for benefits could be questioned.

Question 51: The employer I was working for plans to bring me back to piece of work when information technology reopens.  Do I need to search for another job if I plan to return to my employer?

Respond:  You are required to search for work starting September 8, 2022 unless yous are currently receiving Pandemic Unemployment Help (PUA) benefits due to a medical diagnosis or lack of childcare directly related to COVID-xix.  If your employer will not be recalling you dorsum to piece of work past Oct 8, 2020, you will non be granted an exception to this requirement.

Question 52:  I am working part-time, practise I need to search for work?

Reply:  Yes, you are required to look for work.  If you lot have but worked part-fourth dimension in the last 18 months you are only required to expect for part-time piece of work.  If you take worked total-time in the last 18 months, but you lot are currently working office-fourth dimension, you will be required to search for full-time employment.

Questions 53:  I filed for unemployment insurance and I was approved for a low weekly benefit.  I also have self-employment income.  Tin I increment my weekly do good corporeality with the coin I earned from self-employment?

Answer:  No.  Your weekly benefit amount cannot be increased using boosted self-employment income you may have earned.

Question 54:  I was canonical for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, just I received a decision stating I accept been overpaid unemployment insurance benefits. Why?

When the pandemic began, all claimants were paid regular, land-funded unemployment insurance benefits until the federal programs were set up.  After the CARES Human activity was passed, information technology took some fourth dimension for Iowa Workforce Evolution to set up the program and administer Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) benefits, which are federally funded. The overpayment conclusion is for the state funds yous received before the federal PUA program was set upward.  For technical reasons, Iowa Workforce Development must first consequence an overpayment conclusion on the state funds, even if you lot were eventually approved for PUA benefits that cover the aforementioned time period.

Most PUA benefits have now been paid.  However, due to an issue with our computer program, the agency has not been able to release PUA funds for the same time period you received regular state unemployment insurance benefits.  As shortly as the computer effect is fixed, Iowa Workforce Development volition release PUA payments for the time menses you were approved for PUA benefits, but received land benefits.  Delight annotation, the agency can only withhold 50% of your PUA benefits to offset the overpayment.  The residuum of the PUA payments you are owed will be disbursed to y'all and yous may voluntarily use the money you lot receive to repay the balance of the overpayment to Iowa Workforce Evolution.

For example, your weekly do good amount for regular unemployment insurance benefits is $100 and you received 10 weeks of payments beginning March 29, 2020.  You were later found ineligible for regular unemployment insurance benefits, so you applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) benefits.  Yous were approved for PUA benefits effective March 29, 2020, and your weekly benefit amount for PUA benefits is $100.  You received an overpayment for regular unemployment insurance benefits for $ane,000 for the x weeks of state benefits you received at the beginning of the pandemic.  When the reckoner problems are resolved, Iowa Workforce Development will withhold $500 in PUA benefits to offset the overpayment and will release the remaining $500 directly to you.  Y'all tin use that money to pay off the residuum of your overpayment.

Question 55:  I received a notice that my benefit year is expiring, do I need to file a new claim even if I am still receiving benefits from a federal programme.

Answer: Yep.  States are required to determine eligibility for state benefits when a claim twelvemonth expires.

Second Benefit Year

To be eligible for a second claim year, individuals must take worked since the effective engagement of their previous unemployment claim and earned wages of at least eight times the do good amount.   Second do good yr claims tin however be filed even if 8 times the weekly benefit has not even so been earned.  Afterward eight times the weekly do good amount of the previous claim year has been earned, individuals should contact IWD Customer Service.

Question 56:  I received a green sheet that says I am monetarily eligible for benefits.  Why isn't this plenty?

Answer: When the new claim is filed, there may be remaining wages from a former employer that were not used on your prior claim in Iowa or in another state.  Those wages can be used to create a budgetary valid merits. (As of 7-5-20 this ways at least $850 in ane quarter and at least $ane,700 in a different quarter of the base period).  Iowa law too requires that you earn eight (8) times your prior weekly benefit corporeality on your second claim year earlier payment can be issued on a 2d claim.

Question 57: Do I need to earn Eight (8) times my salary?

Answer: No.  You lot take to earn eight (8) times the weekly benefit amount (WBA) you received during your previous benefit year in order to qualify for a new benefit year.

Question 58:  What type of wages are accepted as part of the eight (8) times qualification?

Answer: Work performed for an employer who is discipline to the Iowa Employment Security Constabulary and who pays unemployment insurance (UI) taxes.  It is also known as 'insured' or 'covered' employment.  (This does not include self-employment, non-profits, farms, religious institutions, etc.)  These wages tin can be earned from more than one employer.

Question 59:  Does this mean I accept to earn eight (8) times afterwards my showtime merits expires?  During what time frame practise I need to earn this money?

Answer: No.  The wages demand to be earned afterwards the effective engagement of the previous claim year.  The wages can exist earned during the original merits yr or after that original claim has expired.

Question 60:  I received a find that I was overpaid benefits.  Practise I need to repay?

Answer:  Per Sections 2104 (F) (2), 2107 (E) (2), and 201(d) of the CARES Act, you may asking an overpayment waiver for Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), and Pandemic Unemployment Aid (PUA). State unemployment insurance payments are not eligible to exist waived by law.  Additional data on the overpayment waiver process tin can be establish here:  https://world wide web.iowaworkforcedevelopment.gov/federal-unemployment-insurance-overpayment-recovery.  Your waiver will be reviewed to determine if you lot meet the eligibility requirements to waive an overpayment.  Whatsoever fraudulent overpayment is not eligible for an overpayment waiver.

Question 61: I was receiving PEUC and I saw the program was ending constructive June 12, 2021.  Am I eligible to receive any other benefits?

Respond:  If you have a monetarily eligible claim and you were switched over to PEUC due to the PEUC claim having a higher benefit amount, you may be eligible to receive state unemployment insurance benefits.  IWD will automatically switch your merits dorsum to regular state unemployment insurance if you are eligible.

Question 62:  I am receiving PUA and have not returned to work, what am I supposed to practise?

Answer: As of May 2021, nosotros show over 66,000 job openings on the IowaWorks website.  In that location are besides many options available for remote working. IWD is here to aid y'all increase your chore skills and assistance you lot return to work. More than information on job opportunities is available at Iowaworks.gov

UPDATE: IWD will resume charging employers for COVID-related unemployment insurance claims filed June 13, 2021 or later.

Additional information can exist found at iowaworkforcedevelopment.gov. Delight check our page daily as we are updating all information as we receive information technology.

The above Questions and Answers are designed to assist in answering basic questions that we have received. Nothing within this guidance is legal advice; nor intended to be used for the same. Should you have questions, please refer to the Iowa Employment Security Law found at Iowa Code § 96. Further guidance and information is besides available on the Federal Department of Labor which tin be found at www.dol.gov/coronavirus.

Updated May 11, 2021

The higher up Questions and Answers are designed to assistance in answering basic questions that we have received. Cypher within this guidance is legal communication; nor intended to exist used for the aforementioned. Should yous have questions, please refer to the Iowa Employment Security Law found at Iowa Code § 96. Further guidance and information is likewise available on the Federal Department of Labor which tin be institute at www.dol.gov/coronavirus.

Updated March 29, 2021

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