Guidelines To Receiving Missouri Unemployment Insurance
If you find yourself unemployed in the great state of Missouri, there are strict guidelines you must adhere to in order to receive Missouri unemployment insurance. Benefits for the unemployed are put into place to provide a bit of financial assistance to those in need who have been let go of their job (due to no fault of their own), whose employer has paid into unemployment benefits for them and who has provided the proper amount of information required of them. If you live in the state of Missouri, you can file for unemployment if you have earned a certain amount of wages during the four quarters of the year (January, April, July and October) and your employer has reported those wages on your behalf.
According to the state of Missouri, if you have earned at least $1500 in at least one quarter, with earnings of at least $750 or more in other quarters in order to receive the minimum benefits. You must be employed at your former job for a minimum of a 12 month period in order to qualify for unemployment compensation. Your benefits will be 4% average of your 2 highest quarter earnings and the amount cannot exceed more than $320 a week regardless of how much you earned at your former employers. The Missouri law states that you cannot earn more than 26 times your weekly benefit amount or 1/3 of your base earnings, whichever amount is less. So, the lesson that Missouri is trying to teach is to not to stay on unemployment for very long, and try as hard as you can to find some sort of permanent and reliable income quickly so you can get off of unemployment quickly.
Denials of Missouri unemployment insurance does happen. If your request for unemployment is denied, you do have the right to appeal the decision and to find out the reason why you were denied. It could be an easy explanation as not providing accurate information regarding work history or unknowingly giving the wrong information, which can easily be remedied with the proper proof. Or, the reasons for denial could be that you were not truthful about the reason why you were let go of your job and it was by your actions in your former job that caused you to be dismissed. It is important to note that even if you are denied a claim, you should continue to file weekly requests for benefits to protect your rights while appeal.
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