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This video is to help show you step by
step how to file an unemployment claim on your re-employment portal account. To get to re-employme you'll go to: REEMPLOYME.maine.gov The website is
displayed below on your screen. Once you are on the reemployment website, if you
have not created a user ID and password, please go back to the video and watch
how to create a user ID and password, and also verify your email address. We
strongly urge you to save your login credentials as you would any other login
ID and password you create, like your online banking. Now let's get started in
this video we'll be focusing on how to file a claim. To do this you'll want to
select file claim option. You will now enter in your user ID, your password, and select submit. Once you're logged in successfully
you'll see the reemployment homepage. From the home page you will select the
unemployment claim tab and then select file unemployment claim, where you'll get the claim notification. The claim filing notification screen
will appear. You can file a Maine internet claim If you have worked in the state of
Maine or served in the military within the last 18 months. If you've not filed a
claim for unemployment benefits against another state the past twelve
months. You'll need the following information to complete your claim, your
social security number, alien registration if applicable. The
business name, address and telephone number of each of the places you have
worked at during the past 18 months. The jobs you held and dates you worked for
each employer within the past 18 months. Select next If you have filed in the past, your name
and some of the information will pre-populate on this screen. If this is
your first time filing you'll have to provide all of these details. Put your first name, last name, and middle initial if you have one, you can
provide that or another last name that you've worked since October 1st of 2018, date of birth, gender, race, are you a US
citizen. If you select no, you do have to provide the following details: below an a
B and C. If yes ,no further details are needed. If you have a disability select
yes or no. This is not a required field. Any required fields have a red asterisk
around them. Are you a military veteran, transitional veteran, or spouse of a
military veteran? Select the highest grade
completed in school, from the drop-down. Do you have any language preference, if
yes provide the type of language from the drop-down. If you're the primary
support of dependent children do you wish to file for dependent dependency
allowance? If yes, you have to answer sub question a. If you don't have the
dependent details that's okay. We'll mail you a paper form to fill out. Once all your details are completed hit
next. The contact details screen appears. You'll
want to provide your mailing address, city, state, and zip code. If your residential address is the same
as your mailing address, select that option and the details above will
pre-populate below. If different you will have to provide those details. On any
screen there are these little circles with question marks,
these are helper texts. If you're not sure what the questions asking select
that and then a description box will appear giving you more information on
what is being asked. Once you've reviewed these details and no longer need the box,
just hit the red X to return back to your other screen. Number four is
required but it does not have a red asterisk around it. You need to select a
town by using the drop-down. Provide a telephone number.
Primary telephone number and a cell phone number or a secondary number if
you have one. It's okay to provide the same one for each box. Would you like to
sign up and receive notification via text message regarding your employment
step? Would you like to sign up to receive notification via text message
regarding your reemployment assistance? These are just notification text
messages. They don't provide a whole lot of detail, just let you know that you
need to go and review your claim because the status is updated. How may we
contact you by email or by mail. Paper mail, that is, if you select email you do
have to agree to the terms and conditions of M DOL regarding electronic
notifications. Again these are just notifications. These do not provide a lot
of details just notifying you that you need to go look at your claim on the
portal or call in and speak to a representative. You want to provide your email address
and confirm your email address. Now at any point while you're filing, if you see
a finished later option on your screen, down on the left hand side, that is like
a Save button. It saves some of your information, up into the point in which
you hit finished later. For security purposes you may have to provide
information again on some of the screens that you've already filled out. Now
select next to continue. The next screen is verify contact details. If any of the
details are not correct hit back and edit them. If everything is all set hit
next and continue. Security confirmation screen appears. The Maine Department of
Labor will validate identity information you've provided with other states and
federal agencies. Please enter your first name and last name as it appears on your
social security card and review the information to secure that this is
correct before clicking next. Your birth date will pre-fill from the
first screen where you had entered it in. Please verify that detail. If it's not
correct, please go back and correct that. Everything is okay to go. So we're gonna
move forward. The next screen you'll see is file claim.
From which location are you filing your claim, home, a public facility like a
library or the Career Center? In this case home is what I'm going to select.
Were you employed with the federal government, performing federal civilian
services after October 1st of 2018? If yes, you do have to select out of the US,
in the US, or in Maine. In this case I'm saying. Anytime if you had selected an
option and need to unselect it, just double click the blue box and it will go
away. Were you discharged from the US military after October 1st of 2018, yes
or no. Have you worked for any employer since October 1st of 2018,
yes or no. Have you worked for an employer since October 1st of 2018 yes.
If yes you need to select the States including federal outside of US or
military employment. By selecting the States you just check the box off. If you
have more than one state that you've worked for you want to make sure you
select all of those States. If you select a state on accident just click the box
to remove it. Do you have a definite date to return to work with your most recent
employer, yes or no. If yes indicate that date. Have you applied for unemployment
insurance benefits and any other states other than Maine in the last 12 months? Are you currently receiving or have you
received short-term disability since October 1st of 2018.
Are you currently receiving or have you received workers comp since October 1st
of 2018. Now question 10. Are you currently unemployed due to the
novel coronavirus outbreak, also known as Covid-19. Only answer yes to this
question if you have been laid off due to Covid-19, and then select next. The employment
history screen will appear. The following screens will ask you to provide details
of your employment history during the past 18 months. Primary job title
description search. Enter a job title which reflects your skills job history
and interests. This will help our system classify the types of jobs that may meet
your qualification and interests. So in the job title search box, type in a job
skill that you have and then hit search. Now read through the job title and job
descriptions to best select the job in which you are looking to select. Once
you've done that hit next. You receive the job title summary. Here
you have to enter in your work experience in years and months. You can
delete any job description because this is blue and has an underline, it means
it's an action item. You can select anything that's blue with underlined to
take further action. Do you want to add another job skill or job history to
interests, select yes and then hit next. The primary job title and description
search appears. Enter in another job title and hit Search. Again, review the
job title and job descriptions to best select the one in which you're looking
to have on your record and then hit next. You receive the job title summary screen
again, you want to provide the number of years and months worked and whether or
not this is a last job skill you had or a preferred job skill that you have. You
can continue to add more job skills if you would, like but in this case I'm
selecting no and moving to the next screen. Employment details, this is where
we're going to talk about your employment over the last 18 months.
If this screen appears and provides an employer name of employers that have
reported your wages to the state of Maine. If you did not work for the
employer that is shown, select no and we'll review those details. If you did,
select yes and provide the details of your employment. Enter your employment
start date, employment end date, and your job description, rate of pay and whether it was by the hour,
weekly, or monthly. However you're providing that, select a reason you are no longer
working with the employer. If you select voluntary quit, you do have
to select a voluntary quit reason from the drop-down box. But in this case its
lack of work. If you have applied for or are receiving a pension from this
employer you need to provide the employer telephone number. Are you being paid by the employer during your time off.
are you receiving or have you received Are you receiving any short-term disability benefits from
this employer since October 1st of 2018. And will you be receiving any
remuneration from this employer, if yes you need to provide whether it's a bonus
pay or other pay. And then once all the details are
completed hit next. If you have more than one employer, again you have to provide
the details for each of those employers. Then we get to the employment summary
screen. Here you can add another employer. If there's no if you have a recent
employer that is not showing in the monetary. If you select yes, I'd select a
drop-down to main employer you can enter in those details manually. In this
case I'm selecting no and hitting next. Now we get into our able and
availability details screen. Are you currently self-employed, are you
a corporate officer, currently working on a commission basis, a professional
athlete. Have you refused an offer of work since you last were employed. Are
you currently attending schooling or training. Do you have a medical condition,
disability or illness that will limit your ability to perform your normal work.
Can you accept full-time work. If no is selected you do have to select a reason
to why and more than one option can be applied. Again if you answer this and you
need to remove it, just uncheck the boxes and double click the hot button and move
it to the one that you want. Are you a union member, if you selected yes, you have to stay in contact with your union hall about work.
Does your regular occupation require shift work, yes or no. If yes you have to
provide the sub question details. If no no other information is needed. How many
hours per week did you normally work in the last 18 months. How many hours per
week are you currently able and available for work. And then we'll select
next to continue. The next screen that appears is a tax
withholding and payment option. Here is where you can opt into having 10% of
your benefits taken out for federal income tax and also the 5% taken out
for state income tax. This can be changed at any point under the benefit
maintenance tab. You will automatically be enrolled to receive your benefit
payments by an electronic payment card. if you'd rather receive your payments by
direct deposit into your checking or savings account, you'll want to go to the
benefit maintenance tab. After you submit your claim and update your bank
information and select the payment options. You'll want to read through the
short form and long disclosure form. The short form appears on the screen. You can
just scroll down through and read those details. If you select the long
disclosure form, this will pre-populate into a separate tab for you to review,
save or print. Once you've reviewed, saved or printed, to go back to the screen that
we were just on, you can close the box out by selecting the close tab box up
here. Once you've reviewed all the information, you do have to enter in your
last four of your social security number. This is your electronic signature and
then select next. Your benefits rights information screen will appear. You must
read the unemployment insurance benefit rights information before your claim can
be processed. To save and print this information you can select the blue
hyperlink. Which will then again give you the option to open save or save as and
you can save this right to your computer. To go back you just X out of that tab.
It's also here for you to just scroll down and read as well. Again you need to
enter in the last four of your social for your electronic signature and then
hit submit. Now we're at the important weekly certification filing instructions. You must file a weekly claim as
instructed. You must be able and available for work and actively seeking
work. You must report all periods of employment of any type and report any
earnings earned, included including tips or cash value provided for such
employment. You must report any offer of work that you refuse or any referral
refusal made by the Career Center or the job link. You must report any
remuneration pay. You must certify that you are not seeking unemployment
benefits under any other state or federal unemployment insurance system
for any part of this period. You must certify that any answers to the
questions on the internet application are true, knowing that this is a criminal
offense, to make any false statements to obtain benefits. Once you have read
through all of the details on the important weekly certification filing
instruction screen , select next. Then you receive your clean confirmation
screen. Here you can select the benefit rights information again in print or
save. You can also print your confirmation by selecting print. This completes how to file your initial
claim on your portal account.