www.starnewsgaonline.com WORK SEARCH PROOF from front page port for claimants, but the real support comes from the connection of job seekers with open positions.” The last payable week for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation, and Mixed Earner Unemployment Compensation was week ending June 26, 2021. Claimants who reside in the state of Georgia must register with EmployGeorgia, the state’s reemployment website, and include his/her social security number during registration. Individuals will be asked to create a resume or upload a searchable resume to the site. Per Georgia law, claimants can only be paid for weeks during which he or she actively seek work, including a minimum of three new reportable job contacts each week. These contacts must be with employers not previously contacted. Employer contacts can include those made in person, by telephone, online, or by resumes faxed, mailed, or emailed. Failure to submit records of at least three work search contacts weekly may result in a denial of benefits, delayed payment, or possible overpayment and penalties.
Claimants are required to keep a detailed record of work search activities and submit evidence on the GDOL website as a part of weekly certification. The GDOL encourages claimants to develop a realistic work search plan to find reemployment and verifies work search contacts. Claimants can be selected at any time for an audit or eligibility review. Individuals must perform work search activities at least three days per week to include, but is not limited to, developing a work search plan, applying for jobs, interviewing, attending job fairs, and developing resumes. The record of employer contacts should include the following: - date of contact - name of the company or other identifying information, such as a job reference number - person contacted - company address, phone number, email, or web address - position title - method of contact - results of contact More information on work search can be found on the GDOL website and work search can be submitted at Weekly Work Search. It is recommended claimants submit work search information immediately upon completing weekly certification.
StarNews
July 11, 2021 Page 3
For more information about unemployment state and federal benefits in the past sixty-seven insurance requirements and how to meet them, weeks. The GDOL issued $158 million in claimants can reference the Unemployment benefits, which included regular unemployInsurance Claimant Handbook online at ment and federally funded Lost Wages dol.georgia.gov. Assistance supplements, Pandemic Emergency The Georgia Department of Unemployment Compensation Claimants are Labor (GDOL) announced it has , Pandemic Unemployment processed 4,939,214 regular Assistance, Federal Pandemic required to keep a unemployment insurance (UI) Unemployment Compensation, detailed record of claims since March 21, 2020, and State Extended Benefits. more than the last 10 years prior work search activities Regular UI initial claims to the pandemic combined (4.8 . . . Claimants can be totaled 20,749, up 51 over the million). selected at any time week. Initial claims are defined As of today, over 223,000 as any notice of unemployment for an audit or jobs are listed on filed to request a determination EmployGeorgia for Georgians of entitlement to or eligibility eligibility review. to access. EmployGeorgia uses of unemployment insurance artificial intelligence to match an individual’s compensation OR to begin a second or subseskills to potential jobs. Claimants receive quent period of eligibility within a benefit year. access to job listings, support to upload up to Initial claims numbers are not a direct correlafive searchable resumes, job search assistance, tion to layoffs. career counseling, skills testing, job fair inforResources for reemployment assistance mation, job training services, and accessibility along with Information on filing an unemployand special accommodations for people with ment claim and details on how employers can disabilities and veterans transitioning back into file partial claims can be found on the agency’s the workplace. webpage at dol.georgia.gov. Video tutorials on how to register and utilize For more information on jobs and current EmployGeorg i a are available a t labor force data, visit the Georgia Labor Force https://employgeorgia.com// Market Explorer at www.explorer.gdol.ga.gov The GDOL has paid almost $22.7 billion in to view a comprehensive report.
OMA 10.25 x 8.0
