S.C. Employment Security Commission

Unemployment Insurance

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Disqualification

Although you may have sufficient wages to qualify for benefits, you may be disqualified under the following conditions:

  1. If you voluntarily quit your job, without good cause connected with your employment, you will be disqualified for the duration of your unemployment until you have earned at least eight (8) times your weekly benefit amount in employment.
  2. If you were discharged from your most recent work for cause connected with the employment, you may be disqualified for a period of not less than five (5) nor more than twenty-six (26) weeks, and your maximum benefit amount will be reduced by the number of weeks of disqualification times your weekly benefit amount.
  3. If you fail to accept an offer of suitable work made by the local Workforce Center, your former employer, or any other employer, you may be disqualified for the duration of your unemployment until you have earned at least eight (8) times your weekly benefit amount in employment.
  4. If you voluntarily retired from your last work, you may be disqualified for the duration of your unemployment until you have earned at least eight (8) times your weekly benefit amount in employment.
  5. If you are unemployed because of a labor dispute, you may be disqualified for the duration of such labor dispute.

 


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