How Soon Can I File for Unemployment Compensation After It's Exhausted in Florida?
Florida unemployment benefits end when you find a new job or exhaust your available benefits. Exhausting your benefits doesn’t mean you can’t ever collect unemployment again, but it does mean you’re ineligible until your benefit year is over. Even then, you must meet the state’s eligibility requirements to start a new claim.
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Exhausting Unemployment
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Unemployment benefits are temporary payments and have a built-in expiration date. Your maximum benefit amount, or MBA, is the most you can collect per benefit year. The Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation, or AWI, calculates and mails you a determination at the beginning of your claim. During your benefit year, you can go on and off benefits without affecting that amount, and when you’ve collected that amount, your claim ends.
Benefit Year
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If you’re still unemployed when your claim is exhausted, you can re-file your claim once your benefit year is over. The benefit year is the 52 weeks that follow the Sunday preceding the day you filed for benefits. Some states require you to earn a certain amount of money or work a certain amount of hours before you can file a new claim. However, Florida doesn’t make those limitations on re-filing your claim.
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How to Refile Your Claim
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Re-filing your Florida unemployment claim is a lot like filing your original claim. You either call the claims line or log into the claims site to fill out the same application you filled out originally. The AWI will evaluate your application for eligibility. If you qualify for benefits, you’ll receive a new benefit determination and benefit year by notice through the mail.
Eligibility Concerns
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You can re-file for Florida unemployment as soon as your original benefit year is over. However, whether you receive a new claim depends on whether you can meet the eligibility requirements. One of the requirements is that you earn at least $3,400 in your base period, which is the 15 to 18 months before you file a claim. However, if you were collecting unemployment during that time, you may not meet that requirement.
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