{"id":864,"date":"2018-12-26T16:46:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T16:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/?p=864"},"modified":"2025-02-20T17:28:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:28:03","slug":"responding-to-unemployment-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/responding-to-unemployment-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Responding to Unemployment Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to unemployment claims is crucial to lowering an employer\u2019s\nunemployment costs. &nbsp;Even if the claim\nfiled is a layoff or a non-contestable claim, it is still critical that these\nclaims get responded to.&nbsp; Often,\nemployers do not realize that non-response to claims can cause loss of appeal\nrights in the future \u2013 should the reason for separation change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s important to understand the unique unemployment laws\nand deadlines associated with different states.&nbsp;\nMany businesses operate in more than one state, and in many cases a certain\nstate may have a 10 or 15 day deadline to respond to a claim. &nbsp;A good baseline rule is to respond to any\nclaim, regardless of the state, within 7 days to ensure compliance among all\nstates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it comes down the reason for separation, it is important that documentation is included to help back up an employer\u2019s response.&nbsp; The state is always looking for write ups, warnings, policies, acknowledgements, and signed resignation letters.&nbsp; It is hard for employers to win a discharge case without having sufficient documentation to back up their story. <br> <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many different forms associated with a single\nunemployment claim that gets filed.&nbsp; For\nexample, you may receive an initial form from the local office, a relief of\ncharge form, and an additional questionnaire \u2013 all for the same claimant!&nbsp; It\u2019s critical that all these forms are responded\nto by the deadline listed on the form (many times different forms have\ndifferent deadlines) along with sufficient documentation to back up the case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dunn Corporate Resources gives clients the ability to process unemployment claims all in one centralized dashboard \u2013 and all replies are reviewed by our unemployment experts before going back to the state to ensure the highest probability of winning a claim.&nbsp; For a demo of our online system, <a href=\"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/contact-us\/\">contact <\/a>one of our friendly claims managers \u2013 we will be happy to discuss our solutions with you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to unemployment claims is crucial to lowering an employer\u2019s unemployment costs. &nbsp;Even if the claim filed is a layoff or a non-contestable claim, it is still critical that these claims get responded to.&nbsp; Often, employers do not realize that non-response to claims can cause loss of appeal rights in the future \u2013 should the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74,99,100,101,5],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-claim","tag-deadline","tag-response","tag-sui","tag-unemployment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunncorp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}