How to apply for unemployment insurance in New York
- 1). You can visit the State Department of Labor website (link below) to begin to file a claim online for unemployment insurance in New York.
- 2). Enter your social security number into the secure website in order to begin. This will take you to a survey where you need to answer pertinent questions as to your current lack of work. For example, you will be asked when you lost your most recent job and why. Before you begin try to have all your personal information in front of you: contact information, drivers license (if you have one) and information about all the employers that you have had in the past 18 months. This process can take approximately one half hour.
- 3). One to two weeks after filing your claim online you will receive a package in the mail detailing how much your weekly benefits for unemployment insurance in New York will be. Note that this does not mean you are qualified: it is merely a representation of how much you will receive if you are qualified.
- 4). In order to actually see whether you are qualified and in order to receive benefits for unemployment insurance in New York, the packet you received will direct you to visit the State Department of Labor website once again on a certain date. When you have reached the website click the button that says claim weekly benefits. Again, enter your social security number into the secure website and follow all prompts after that.
- 5). The first time that you claim weekly benefits for unemployment insurance in New York it is for what is called an unpaid waiting week. You will not actually get paid for the first week. You need to return one week later and claim your weekly benefit once again. If you are in fact eligible you will get your first payment at the beginning of next week.
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