Unemployment benefits change in Wisconsin: One-week waiting period

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http://www.fdlreporter.com/article/20120103/FON0101/120102029/Unemployment-benefits-change-Wisconsin

9:54 AM, Jan. 2, 2012

With the new year, comes a new state budget provision requiring a one-week waiting period before unemployed workers can begin collecting unemployment benefits.

The new provision will impact the newly unemployed and those already collecting benefits. In some cases it will result in a laid-off worker receiving one less check than he or she would have in the past.

State lawmakers made the change as part of the 2011-13 biennial budget, meaning Wisconsin will join more than three dozen states that have already instituted waiting periods.

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1. It used to be this way

before. The last time I collected UE here we had to wait a week. But we did get it at the end anyway...but we had to keep track of which week it was, because we were always filing for the week before, not the week of.