Unemployment occurs when someone could work and wants to work but is unable to find employment. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has a specific definition of unemployment: those who don’t have a job but are available for work and have looked for work in the past four weeks.
How to calculate how many weeks of unemployment you will get?
One tells you how much money you are entitled to collect, and another tells you how many weeks your benefits will last. New York, for example, has a UI Benefits Calculator on which you can enter the starting date of your original claim to determine how many weeks of UI (Regular Unemployment Insurance Benefits) you will receive.
