Disaster Unemployment Assistance Deadline June 21, 2013

The deadline to apply for Disaster Unemployment Assistance is Friday, June 21.

 

Workers or self-employed individuals in Cleveland, Lincoln, McClain, Oklahoma and Pottawatomie counties who lost work or earnings due to severe storms and tornadoes from May 18 and continuing until the close of business on June 21, are eligible for Disaster Unemployment Assistance. DUA is available to those who do not qualify for regular state unemployment benefits.

To qualify for DUA, an individual must:

  • have worked or been scheduled to work in the disaster area, but because of the disaster no longer have a job or a place to work in the area, or could not get to the place of work because of disaster damage;
  • have been prevented from working by an injury or illness as a direct result of the disaster; or
  • have become the head of the household and need employment because the head of the household died as a result of the disaster.

To claim DUA, unemployment of an affected individual must be a direct result of one of the following:

  • physical damage or destruction of the place of employment;
  • physical inaccessibility of the place of employment due to its closure by the federal, state or local government in immediate response to the disaster; or
  • lack of work or loss of revenues, if prior to the disaster the employer or self-employed business received at least a majority of its revenue or income from an entity in the major disaster area that was damaged or destroyed in the disaster or an entity in the major disaster area closed by the federal, state or local government.

To begin the claims process, contact the OESC Unemployment Insurance Service Center at 1-800-555-1554 Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The deadline to apply for Disaster Unemployment Assistance is Friday, June 21.

 

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