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Emergency Unemployment Compensation

OVERVIEW OF THE FEDERAL-EXTENDED-BENEFITS LAW (Updated January 11, 2012) 

The President signed a 2-month extension of federal extended benefits, also called Emergency Unemployment Compensation or EUC, and state extended benefits. This latest federal legislation does not include any additional weeks of benefits. It extends the deadlines for starting any new extended benefits.

If you have not run out of all benefits, continue requesting payment on CUBLine Online or CUBLine. You may check your account details using MyUI Claimant or contact customer service if you do not know your claim status.

Eligibility requirements:

The law allows us to start paying federal extended benefits (also called Emergency Unemployment Compensation or EUC) to people who have run out of money on whatever they were collecting.

Congress has passed several laws about federal extended benefits. Because of that, there are several phases, also called tiers. Find your situation described on this page to see how the law applies to you.

You ran out of money on your claim for regular unemployment benefits (beginning federal extended benefits Tier 1). 

• You may get Tier 1 of federal extended benefits.
   
• Tier 1 lasts for up to 20 weeks.
   
• You must sign up for federal extended benefits no later than February 29, 2012.
   
• The last date we can pay any federal extended benefits is August 11, 2012.
   
• You must run out of Regular Unemployment Benefits by February 25, 2012 to be eligible for Tier 1 benefits.

You ran out of money on Tier 1 (beginning Tier 2).

• You may get Tier 2 of federal extended benefits. We automatically put you on Tier 2.
   
• Tier 2 lasts for up to 14 weeks (our computer programming pays the 14th week when you go to Tier 3).
   
• The last date we can pay any federal extended benefits is August 11, 2012.
   
• You must run out of Tier 1 benefits by March 3, 2012 to be eligible for Tier 2 benefits. 

You ran out of money on Tier 2 (beginning Tier 3).

• You may get Tier 3 of federal extended benefits. We automatically put you on Tier 3.
   
• Tier 3 lasts for up to 13 weeks.
   
• The last date we can pay any federal extended benefits is August 11, 2012.
   
• You must run out of Tier 2 Benefits by March 3, 2012 to be eligible for Tier 3 benefits.

You ran out of money on Tier 3 (beginning state extended benefits).

• You may get state extended benefits (click  here  to view SEB requirements).
   
• State extended benefits lasts for 13 weeks.  

• You must run out of Tier 3 by March 3, 2012 to be eligible for state extended Benefits.

If you ran out of money on state extended benefits (beginning state extended benefits 2; also known as High Extended Benefits).

• You may get state extended benefits 2 if Colorado’s unemployment rate was at least 8 percent for three months in a row at the time you signed up.
   
• State extended benefits 2 lasts for seven weeks.

• The last day we can pay state extended benefits is March 10, 2012. 

THE LAST DAY OF YOUR CLAIM

By law, we have to look at your wages when you reach the last day of your claim. We have to check whether you earned enough in Colorado or in any other state to get paid on a claim for regular unemployment. 

If you would get $100 less or 25 percent or less of your weekly amount on a claim for regular unemployment than you would get on federal extended benefits, we leave you on federal extended benefits. The law allows us to keep the wages that you would have used on a new claim so that we can use them on a later claim for you. You would use up all your federal extended benefits. Then, we would use those wages for a new claim for you.