Florida Unemployment Insurance Posters

With hurricanes an annual threat to the state, Florida Unemployment Insurance posters contain information about Disaster Unemployment Assistance. If employees have been working or residing in an officially declared disaster area and are now unemployed as a result of the disaster, employees may be eligible for Unemployment Compensation Benefits or Disaster Unemployment Assistance. Disaster Unemployment Assistance is a federally funded unemployment benefit program, which provides assistance to individuals who become unemployed a result of a disaster. This means, that as the employer, you simply need to make your employees aware of these benefits. They will not come out of your pocket.

For the program to be implemented it must be request by the governor of Florida, approved by the President of the United States, and a signed written agreement must be in effect prior to any action being taken. After a disaster is declared, an official announcement regarding the availability of Disaster Unemployment Assistance funds is made by the state employment security agency. Florida Unemployment Insurance posters advise that eligible individuals will have 30 days from the announcement date to file a claim for Disaster Unemployment Assistance.

The disaster period is the 26-week period beginning with the first week following the date the major disaster began and ending with the 26th week subsequent to the date the major disaster was declared. Depending on the date of the declaration, it is possible for individuals to receive more than 26 weeks of benefits.

An individual must exhaust all entitlement (Unemployment Compensation, EUC) prior to being eligible for Disaster Unemployment Assistance. These entitlements are listed on Florida Unemployment Insurance posters. A claimant who is disqualified from receiving regular unemployment may be entitled to Disaster Unemployment Assistance. Therefore, do not feel that you must provide regular unemployment if they do not qualify.

The Disaster Unemployment Assistance entitlement is calculated with a base period of the most recent tax year that ended prior to the individual’s unemployment that was the direct result of a disaster.

For any week that the claimant’s earnings are in excess of the calculated weekly benefit amount, the individual receives no payment for the week. A detailed description of all unemployment insurance information can be found on the Florida Unemployment Insurance posters.