What is the reason you keep having to bring them more documentation?What sort of documentation are you being asked to bring them? Is it related to your separation, your identification (such as social security card or citizenship) your wages, or your job attachment? Have you moved and changed your address so that you may not be receiving notifications? Are you dealing with the same person each time you file a claim?

What did they tell you was the reason that you did not received any benefits last year? Did you receive a decision saying you were not eligible for some reason? REALLY? You went there every week, you had a lack of work lay off from your employer, and you couldn't ever get it set up so that you received benefits while being off work for four months?

And you just waited for them to do something and they never did, and went back to work and didn't ask your employer to look into it for you, or ever keep calling and asking them why you never got the 15 or 16 weeks of benefits you should have gotten. And you never had a clue why you didn't get them????


Was their a monetary issue on your claim last year, so that you didn't have enough wages in the base period quarters? Did you not have a valid Social security card or did you fail to present proper forms of identification? Did you make the weekly certifications as directed to receive your checks and participate in any and all job seeking activities that were required of you?

While four or five weeks is a long time to wait for approval on a claim,(the one you filed about Christmas time this year) there must be some valid reason why they are not getting you paid, everything else being in line for you to receive benefits, within four or five weeks, the claim should set up and be started, even if it has been this long.

Are you sure you understand about making the weekly certifications for benefits, and that you have been doing that every week this year, even though you have not been paid yet?

If there is still no satisfaction, and there is NO legitimate reason you are not mentioning here that there is a delay, then you need to start contacting others to ask about it. Your company's HR should be able to contact them on your behalf, and should be willing to do so in this case.
You might consider the Department of Labor's higher ups, the commissioner's office, for example. Inquiries can be made at the office of your U.S. senator or representative, and they will have someone look into the matter for you.

The reason that I ask if it is the same person is that when there is a one on one system, sometimes a particular claims worker can be over vigilant about requiring you to bring in documentation. But there should never be a situation in which you just never get approved or denied, and you never are told why.