State Extended Benefits

OVERVIEW

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.

If you have run out of all benefits, including state extended benefits, you may stop requesting payment on CUBLine Online or CUBLine.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STATE EXTENDED BENEFITS

By law, we cannot pay you state extended benefits if we found you responsible for the reason your job ended with your last employer. If we cannot pay you state extended benefits now, we could begin to pay you if you go back to work and are not responsible for the reason the job ended. If this happens, make sure you tell us about that. We might be able to pay you from the time you file or reopen your state-extended-benefits claim.

By law, you must do the following in order for us to pay you state extended benefits:

Be able to work, available for work, and actively looking for work.

Be willing to accept any work you can do if that job pays more than your weekly benefit amount (unless the rate of pay is less than the current minimum wage).

Make at least seven job contacts per week. This is true even if you are job-attached or union-attached. Make sure you have registered for work at a local workforce center. The workforce center can change the number of job contacts you must make.

Look for work on at least two different days of the week.

Keep a written list of all your job contacts.
- You will need to send us this information one week after you request payment on CUBLine or CUBLine Online. Fax the information to 303-318-9014 or mail it to P.O. Box 400 Denver, CO 80201-0400
- Make sure you keep track of the date of your contact, the name and address of the employer contacted, how you made the contact, the person you contacted, the type of work you wanted, and the results of the contact. We may check with the employer to make sure you made the contact.

Accept any leads for work that the workforce center gives you.

Report all hours worked and all earnings received.

If an employer sends us a written notice that you will begin full-time work within 30 days, you will not need to look for work. If you are in school or training through an approved-training program, let us know. You may not need to look for work.

We cannot pay your state extended benefits if you do not:

Look for work as explained on this form.
Accept a lead for work from your workforce center.
Accept a job that an employer offers you, and that you can do.

By law, if you do not meet these requirements, we have to stop paying you state extended benefits. We could begin to pay you again if you go back to work in four different weeks and make at least four times your weekly benefit amount. Also, you must not be responsible for the reason the job ended with that employer.

Information for People Living Outside Colorado—We can pay you two weeks of state extended benefits if the state where you live does not have state extended benefits. If the state where you live does have state extended benefits, you have to send us a copy of your list of job contacts whenever you request payment on CUBLine Online or CUBLine. You can mail or fax it to the address or fax number at the top of this page. Do not forget to put your name and social security number on each page you send us.

If you have run out of money on Tier 3, you may sign up for state extended benefits using the SEB Online Application.

If you have run out of money on state extended benefits, we automatically put you on state extended benefits 2.