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If losing your job wasn’t your fault and your employer(s) paid taxes in your name, you can receive unemployment benefits provided
your year’s income prior to the quarter you lost work meets a minimum amount. (We’ll snail mail you about your monetary eligibility.) To get
benefits, you must be seeking full-time employment, able to work, and available for work. Note: Employers fund unemployment insurance. It is not
welfare nor are funds withheld from your pay for these benefits.
Disqualification
Eligibility Requirements
Wages Determine Your Benefits
Wages earned doing one year of insured work—the base period—determine your benefits. Only wages earned from an employer covered by
South Carolina employment security law count as base-period wages. Generally, wages earned from construction, factory work, mills, shops, stores,
offices, banks, mines, and other businesses employing one or more persons count. The law does not cover certain farm labor, certain domestic
services in private homes, and several other employment types.
You cannot file for extended state benefits on this site. You must file in person at your local workforce center. Living outside
South Carolina? Call 800.529.8339 to file for extended benefits, those benefits available after you exhaust your federal Emergency Unemployment
Compensation (EUC). What’s EUC? State Extended Benefits prolong benefits up to 13 additional
weeks. State Extended Benefits are available if you have exhausted all regular unemployment insurance and all Emergency Unemployment Compensation, First, Second, Third, and Fourth Tier on or after February 15, 2009.
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