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    Default Re: Denied Unemployment Due to Attending School/Appeal

    I have had employees denied benefits when I did not appeal. The defining feature is not whether or not the employer contests, but whether the employee's employment ended for a qualifing reason AND the employee is in compliance with all the requirements to collect.

    Is it possible that the UI office sees your schooling as interfering with your job search? You are required to put in a certain amount of effort (how much varies by state) into your job search in order to be in compliance with the rules to collect, and if your schooling is interfering with that, you can be denied regardless of what the employer says.

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    Default Re: Denied Unemployment Due to Attending School/Appeal

    No, I agree, that's probably why. But I said on the phone I'd quit school for a Job and said the very same thing in my typed-up Appeal Letter I'm sending off Certified this afternoon (I received the denial letters yesterday afternoon).

    I was just hoping it was the "catch-22" I'd need to qualify, that I'd gladly quit School for work...

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    Default Re: Denied Unemployment Due to Attending School/Appeal

    Being willing to quit school for a job, and spending enough time looking for a job, are not the same thing. You need to make sure they understand that not only are you willing to quit school if you get a job, but that you ALSO are not allowing school to get in the way of your conducting the required job search, and enough of it to meet the mandatory requirements.

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    Default Re: Denied Unemployment Due to Attending School/Appeal

    Solid Advice. Thanks.

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