Not necessarily. “Eligibility” is only the first step. But there is also a second step. Even if you are “eligible,” the employer may be able to prove that you should be “disqualified.”

To over-simplify a bit, “disqualification” usually happens if the person has done something wrong that somehow caused their own unemployment. There are other reasons, but they don’t come up very often. So we won’t discuss them here.

That depends on how much you earned in your base period.  Check out the Unemployment Compensation Benefit Rate Table from WorkForce WV to get an idea.

There are many grounds for Disqualification. But three Disqualification grounds come up over and over, in a lot of cases.

• Fired for “Simple Misconduct.” Lose only six weeks of benefits.
• Fired for “Gross Misconduct.” Lose all benefits.
• “Voluntary Quit, Without Good Cause Involving Fault On the Part of the Employer.” Lose all benefits.

We’ll discuss each of these in Disqualification – Discharge for Misconduct article.

View the Unemployment Compensation Toolkit for more information on Unemployment Compensation.