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DOES Unemployment Compensation Program
Welcome to the DC Department of Employment Services Unemployment Compensation Program. The District offers two ways to file for unemployment compensation – Internet and telephone. We strongly encourage that customers seeking unemployment benefits do so online for quicker service. To begin the process to file for your unemployment benefits, you will need to have the following information readily available:
- Your social security number;
- Your most recent 30-day employer’s name(s), address(es), telephone number(s), and dates of employment;
- Your Alien Registration Number, if you are not a US Citizen;
- Your DD214, if you are ex-military;
- Your Standard Form 8 or Standard Form 50, if you are a former federal employee; and
- Severance pay information (only applicable if you did or will receive severance pay).
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It’s Here: Your Own Prepaid Unemployment Benefits Debit Card |
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Through our ongoing efforts to improve the Unemployment Compensation Program, the DC Department of Employment Services (DOES) now offers a new electronic payment solution: the Unemployment Insurance Benefits Prepaid Debit Card ( UI Benefits Cards*), a reloadable Visa® prepaid card. The UI Benefits Card offers you a faster, easier, cheaper, and safer way to receive your unemployment insurance benefits. The card also offers convenient and secure ways to access your payments, including point-of-sale purchases wherever Visa® is accepted, as well as ATM and over-the-counter cash access. For more information, call 1(855) 5UI-CARD (1-855-584-2273) or read our FAQs. Getting Your Unemployment Benefits Just Got Easier! |
Links to Start Your Unemployment Compensation Process
Manage Your Account
Unemployment Insurance Information for Employers
General Benefits Information:
You may be disqualified from receiving benefits in the District of Columbia for any of the following reasons:
- Voluntary departure from your last employer without good cause connected with the work.
- Discharge by your last employer for gross misconduct.
- Discharge by your last employer for misconduct other than gross misconduct.
- Refusal to apply for, or accept, suitable work without good cause.
- Participation in a labor dispute other than a lockout.
- Inability to work or unavailability for work.
- Failure to register, as directed, with the Job Service.
- Failure to report, as directed.
- Failure to participate, as directed, in reemployment services.
- Failure to attend a training course recommended by the Department of Employment Services.
- Not being authorized to work, if you are not a US Citizen.
- A reasonable assurance of continuing employment.
Extended Unemployment Insurance Information:
There are currently two federal programs that potentially extend unemployment insurance (UI) benefits for eligible claimants. The Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) and Extended Benefits (EB) programs are designed to assist claimants who have exhausted their regular UI benefits during this period of high unemployment. If a claimant is otherwise eligible for federal unemployment benefits, in order to receive additional weeks of benefits through EUC:
- Claimants must exhaust all regular UI benefits by February 29, 2012.
- Claimants must have applied for EUC through the web, over the phone, or at a local DC Works! Career Center on or before the week ending March 6, 2012.
- Claimants cannot be eligible for unemployment benefits on a new, regular claim in DC, another state, or Canada.
- Claimants MUST submit Work Search information each week. Work Search information can be supplied online or it may be submitted by mailing in a completed weekly claim form.
In order to receive additional weeks of benefits through EB:
- Claimants must exhaust all regular UI benefits and all EUC benefits before March 6, 2012.
- Claimants must continue to file each week through the web, over the phone, or by mail.
- Claimants cannot be eligible for unemployment benefits on a new, regular claim in DC, another state, or Canada.
- Claimants MUST submit Work Search information each week. Work Search information can be supplied online or it may be submitted by mailing in a completed weekly claim form.
Other Related Unemployment Compensation Links
FINRA Job Dislocation Brochure*
 By Phone: Local (202) 724-7000 or Toll Free 1 (877) 319-7346
Effective immediately, the DC unemployment telephone lines will be open:
Monday - Friday from 8:30 am to 5 pm
Please call during non-peak hours—weekdays after 5pm, and all day Saturday—to reach our automated line. Due to heavy call volume, if you call during peak hours, please be prepared for extended hold times.
Find A Job — Visit www.jobs.dc.gov
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