How to Report Jury Duty Wages for Michigan Unemployment
You may be unemployed and collecting unemployment, but that doesn't mean you won't get called to serve on jury duty. If so, the jury pay you receive needs to be reported as income when you file your unemployment claims. Although it reduces your unemployment benefits for the days you serve on the jury, it also extends how long you can receive unemployment.
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Instructions
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Check a calendar to match the days that you're reporting on your claim with the days you served on the jury. It may cover two claim periods.
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Total up your jury pay. You only need to report jury pay, not any travel or lodging reimbursement you may have received --- for instance, if you served on a federal grand jury and lived more than 50 miles away.
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Report your wages as special payments when you file your biweekly claim through the MARVIN phone reporting system by calling 866-638-3993, or on the Internet at michigan.gov/uia. The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency uses that information to calculate your benefit amount for that period.
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Receive a reduced unemployment benefit check. Because jury pay is so little, it doesn't make you ineligible for unemployment benefits for any reporting period, but it reduces your regular benefit amount by half of what your jury wages for the period were.
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Tips & Warnings
If your benefit check is reduced, it doesn't mean the reduction is lost money to you. Your unemployment benefits draw from an account set up in your name and paid into by your employers while you worked so that you have 26 weeks of benefits. Each unemployment benefit check reduces that account balance. If you are taking less from the account because you have jury earnings, then the account lasts longer than 26 weeks.
