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TIPS for looking at the IUC Interface:

When a case is pended on NFOCUS, IUC populates payments for any date that is equal to, or greater than the pending date. The program will never look back to the rows already populated on the IUC table prior to the case pending date. If the worker wants to include any IUC checks that were issued prior to the case pending date, they need to add those checks into the Expert System. The IUC Program does look back 26 weeks to populate the IUC Interface table (in the mainframe), but does not go back PRIOR TO THE PENDING DATE, to populate the Expert System.

The first IUC payment is usually received 3 to 4 weeks from the date the claim was filed.
Unemployment insurance claimants who have quit a job without a good work related reason or who have been fired for misconduct will be penalized for twelve weeks. This means they will not receive benefits during the first twelve weeks of their claim and the total amount they claim is reduced by a corresponding amount.
Weekly Benefit Limits-- For year 2005, 2006, and 2007 the weekly benefit maximum is capped at $288.00. During 2008, 2009, and 2010 the maximum weekly benefit can increase by up to $10.00 in each of those years. Beginning in 2011 the maximum weekly benefit amount will once again be indexed without restriction.

When there is an amount in the Earned income-

If the weekly amount of earned income is less than 25% of the IUC weekly amount, then the full IUC weekly benefit amount is received.

Example: Claimant is eligible for $288.00 per week on their UI claim, they may earn gross wages of $72.00 or less and still receive their $288.00 benefit.
Any earnings greater than 25% of the weekly benefit (including partial dollar amounts) and less that the whole weekly benefit amount will be considered to be a dollar for dollar, cent for cent deduction from the amount payable to the claimant. The amount payable to the claimant will be rounded down to the next whole dollar.

Example: Claimant is eligible for $288 per week on their IUC claim, if their earned income is $$260.83, they will still receive $27.00 in IUC benefits.
If the weekly amount of earned income is equal to or greater than the weekly IUC benefit, then no IUC benefit will be issued.

Example: Claimant is eligible for $288.00 per week on their UI claim, If the earned income is $288.00 or more, the claimant would not be entitled to any IUC benefits.
If there is earned income and the amount of the IUC benefit is not equal to the full benefit amount or the dollar for dollar reduction, then the amount being deducted may be for taxes.

Example: Claimant is eligible for $288.00 per week on their UI claim, the amount in the earned income is $43.92., if the amount of the net IUC benefit is $266.00, then $22 was deducted for taxes.
When there is an amount in Social Security or Pensions, the IUC benefits amount is reduced dollar for dollar up to a maximum of 50% of the gross SSA or pension amount the claimant is receiving.

You may view whether or not an Unemployment Overpayment is for 'fraud' or 'non-fraud' by going to the IUC interface, selecting the desired benefit row and then the 'Disqual/Adjus' button. The 'Overpayment' box will display 'fraud' or 'non-fraud'.

In the Expert system, Unearned Income task, the interface populates the 'Unemployment Gross amount' and the 'Adjustment amount' with the reason 'Unemployment Compensation Overpayment' when the overpayment is a NON-FRAUD overpayment. Then, in budgeting, the budget uses the NET amount in the calculation. .

When it is a Fraud overpayment, the gross amount of the Unemployment is the only amount that the interface populates in the Unearned Income task and budgeting uses the Gross amount in the budget calculation.

Alert # 259 gets created when income starts or income amount changes on IUC.

(03-2007)