What is a waiting week?
Before any benefits can be paid, you must serve a waiting week. To serve the waiting week, you must have filed a claim and be entitled to benefits in all respects. You must also call the Tel-A-Claim system or submit a paper Continued Claim Report to report for your waiting week. You will not be paid benefits for the waiting week. You will only have to serve one waiting week per benefit year.
Before any benefits can be paid, you must serve a waiting week. To serve the waiting week you must have a claim in existence (benefit year), have filed a weekly certification and be entitled to benefits. One waiting week must be served in each benefit year. The waiting week becomes payable when your claim balance is equal to or less than the benefit amount you would be eligible for during the week.
