Extended Unemployment Benefits

Information on the Additional Extension of Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) Benefits

The state of Georgia also provides for an additional number of weeks for those who are unemployed continuously for a certain number of weeks, who have exhausted their benefits under regular and emergency unemployment benefits.

Those people who are currently getting benefits from the original EB provision in Georgia or who have finished their initial claim can potentially be eligible to gain(according to the Georgia Unemployment Office Web Site):

* First-Tier EUC Benefits: Provides up to 7 additional weeks of EUC benefits; and
* Second-Tier EUC Benefits: Provides up to 13 additional weeks of EUC benefits once their First-Tier EUC benefits are exhausted and a new regular unemployment insurance (UI) claim cannot be established.

Any person who filed an original EUC claim prior to the enactment of the new laws will have their claims recalculated and will be sent a redermination notice which will give them the right to reclaim. The calculations will be based on your earned wages and for the purposes of the additional weeks of unemployment compensation will be about eighty percent of your original claim.

You should be paid the same weekly benefit amount (WBA) allowed on your most recent claim. The first payable week of First-Tier EUC was the week of November 23–29, 2008, so if you were receiving benefits then, you should have likely exhausted them, or nearly so by now and have received a determination from Georgia.

If you are a displaced worker in Georgia and you meet the requirements of the new legislation you should be notified by mail within 10 days of your claim ending with the instructions on how to apply and claim the additional First-Tier EUC benefits. There will be no need to call or visit your local career center, unless  you are asked to do so by your career center staff, your filing can take place at the Georgia Unemployment web site, which is found:

http://www.dol.state.ga.us/spotlight/sp_euc_2008.htm

If you have exhausted your First-Tier EUC claims,  you will be notified by mail by the Georgia unemployment office of any potential eligibility for Second-Tier EUC benefits.
You will also be given instructions on what to do if you need to claim those.
If you do not receive instructions you should visit the Georgia unemployment web site and find out why you have not received them, and what to do in that instance.

To file an emergency unemployment compensation claim in the state of Georgia, you may do so by visiting the Georgia unemployment compensation web site which is located at:

http://www.dol.state.ga.us/spotlight/sp_euc_2008.htm