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DE UI - Base Period

The Delaware Division of Unemployment Insurance (UI) determines your eligibility for UI by first examining your wages during the Primary Base Period. This is the time period that is first used to calculate your earnings eligibility and benefit amounts.

Your Base Period is the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the date that your UI claim is effective. Wages considered are those paid to you during the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters preceding the effective claim date.

The Base Period may also used to determine the cap for your Benefit Credit -- the total amount of benefits you may potentially collect during the 52 weeks following the effective date of your claim.

CALENDAR QUARTERS

3-month period:

Beginning January 1, ending March 31

Beginning April 1, ending June 30

Beginning July 1, ending September 30

Beginning October 1, ending December 31

ILLUSTRATION OF BASE PERIOD

 

Graphic aid produced by Delaware Department of Unemployment Insurance, simply showing that the Base Period is the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the date that your UI claim is effective.

See also:

DE UI - Earnings Eligibility

DE UI - Benefit Amount Calculation

DE UI - Seasonal Employment Claims

DE UI - Earnings Allowance

DE UI - Reporting Requirements

DE UI - Weekly Pay Authorization

DE UI - Work Search Requirements

DE UI - Return to Work Requirements

DE UI - Benefit Year

DE UI - Contacting UI Offices and Hotline

DE UI - Tax Liability on Benefits

Source:

http://www.delawareworks.com/Unemployment/welcome.shtml

DE UI Claimant Handbook, available at:
http://www.delawareworks.com/Unemployment/forms/claimant%20handbook.pdf

Back to:

DE Unemployment Insurance Overview

DE Benefit Information System Overview


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