I quit my job in the US Virging Islands to move back to Delaware. Can I collect unemployment?
I have worked and lived in Delaware for more than 20 years and never collected unemployment. I was in the VI for only eight months. I heard that you can only collect if you had been fired. Is that true?
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No
Unemployment compensation is for people who lose their jobs through no fault of their own, to help them out while searching for another job.
You quit voluntarily, so you did not lose your job, so you do not qualify for this assistance.
If you get fired FOR CAUSE, you cannot collect unemployment, but the company has to PROVE to the government that it was for cause, and you have right to dispute that in unemployment court.
It is ONLY if the company lets you go, because they no longer need you, or no longer can afford to have as many workers, or they go out of business, that you can claim unemployment compensation.
only if you were fired. why don't you find a job BEFORE you move back?
The world is no fair. People who don't have children still have to pay taxes for education too.
Just find a job for the meantime. If you find a job now you should be laid-off within a year or two as the economy is going down and down.
Yes, that is true. You can only collect unemployment if you were fired unjustly or without due process, or if you were laid off. If you quit because you were being harassed or were in an unsafe work environment you could sue, but you would not be entitled to unemployment compensation.
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