If you are receiving Nebraska Unemployment benefits, you need to make sure that you are applying for work each week.
Neb. Rev. Stat. 48-628(3)(a) provides that the employee is ineligible for benefits for the week in which he or she he or she has failed, without good cause, to apply for available, suitable work, to accept suitable work offered him or her.
If you are found to have failed to apply for work, you then are not eligible for unemployment benefits for the twelve weeks which immediately follow such week, and your benefit amount will be reduced by an amount equal to the number of weeks for which you have been disqualified by the commissioner.
When determining whether you have been applying for (or failed to accept) suitable work, the Unemployment Judges will consider the degree of risk involved to the individual's health, safety, and morals, and your physical fitness and prior training, experience and prior earnings, length of unemployment and prospects for securing local work in your normal line of work, and the distance of the available work from your residence.
The good news is that you will not be disqualified for benefits for refusing to apply for available, full-time work or accept full-time work solely because you are seeking part-time work if the majority of the weeks of work include part-time work. Except that you must be available for work at least twenty hours per week.
If you receive notification that the Department of Labor has determined you must pay back benefits because they believe that you were not appropriately applying for work, you may want to speak to a Nebraska Unemployment Benefits attorney. Madathil Law Office, LLC is happy to provide legal representation to those who need help appealing unemployment benefits.
If you live in Omaha, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Douglas County, Otoe, or Cass Counties and you need an employment law attorney, consider contacting Angela Y. Madathil and the Madathil Law Firm.
Contact us at angela@madathil-law.com or by telephone at 402.577.0686. For more information feel free to look at our website www.madathil-law.com.
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