<div>---------- Forwarded message ---------<br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Gaston, Pamela</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:Pamela.Gaston@dhs.nj.gov">Pamela.Gaston@dhs.nj.gov</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 4:12 PM<br>Subject: Disaster Unemployment Benefits<br>To: CBVI Public-Email <<a href="mailto:CBVI.Public-Email@dhs.nj.gov">CBVI.Public-Email@dhs.nj.gov</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Disaster Unemployment Assistance </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://www.myunemployment.nj.gov/labor/myunemployment/before/circumstances/disaster/" target="_blank">https://www.myunemployment.nj.gov/labor/myunemployment/before/circumstances/disaster/</a> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Some New Jersey residents affected by Hurricane Ida may be eligible for Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) after President Biden declared a major disaster in
Bergen, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Passaic, Somerset, Union, and Warren Counties on September 5, 2021. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Individuals who lost their jobs directly due to the disaster and work, commute through, or live in one of the above counties may be eligible for these DUA benefits: </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Individuals unable to reach their job because they must travel through the affected area and are prevented by doing so by the disaster. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Individuals who were to commence employment but were prevented from doing so by the disaster. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Individuals who became the major support for a household because the death of the head of the household was caused by the disaster. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Individuals who cannot work because of an injury caused as a direct result of the disaster. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Unemployment is a direct result of the major disaster if the unemployment resulted from: </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The physical damage or destruction of the place of employment. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The physical inaccessibility of the place of employment due to its closure by the federal, state, or local government in immediate response to the disaster. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Lack of work, or loss of revenues, if, prior to the disaster, the employer or self-employed business received at least a majority of its revenue or income from an
entity in the major disaster area that was damaged or destroyed in the disaster or an entity in the major disaster are closed by the federal, state, or local government. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Before an individual can be determined eligible for DUA, it must be established that the individual is otherwise ineligible for regular unemployment insurance benefits
under any state or federal law. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Therefore, claimants must first apply for state unemployment benefits. When applying for UI, claimants should cite "Impacted by Hurricane Ida" as the reason for separation.
If deemed ineligible for regular benefits, NJDOL will email you an application for DUA. You will be required to submit necessary documentation along with the DUA application. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Claims for DUA must be filed by 10/20/2021. </span></p>
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