1. (1) Upon request, a claimant shall provide verification of conducting at least 4 work search actions to the department by computer-based programs or other methods approved by the department. The department shall consider alternate forms of submittal of completed information by a claimant on an individual basis when there is good cause for the claimant’s inability to use a computer-based program. Good cause for failure to use a computer-based program as prescribed by the department shall include any of the following:

   1. (am) The claimant possesses physical, mental, educational, or linguistic limitations.

   2. (bm) The claimant has unusual or unavoidable circumstances beyond the claimant’s control.

      Note: The department shall notify claimants that it will consider alternate methods to verify a claimant’s work search actions if there is good cause for the claimant’s inability to use a computer-based program. In addition, the department shall provide claimants with information about how to request assistance with providing work search verification.

2. (1m) A claimant shall retain verification of all work search actions for 52 weeks following the week in which the work search actions occurred. Items used for verification shall include any of the following:

   1. (a) Applications for work including the date on which the claimant made an employer contact; if available, the name and address of the employer and the name of the employer representative contacted; the type of work applied for; the method used to contact the employer and the results of the contact; or other verifiable information of the application.
   2. (b) Civil service examinations: the date on which the claimant took an examination, the location of the examination, and the position for which the examination was taken.
   3. (c) Registration with a union and placement facilities: the date on which the claimant registered and the name and address of the facility.
   4. (d) Any reemployment services used at a public employment office: the date of the visit, the name and address of the public employment office, training program, or similar reemployment office, and the name of the person with whom the claimant met.
   5. (e) If approved by the department, any other type of work search activity reasonably expected to result in the claimant becoming employed.
3. (2) A claimant may be ineligible for unemployment benefits in any given week in which the claimant fails to provide satisfactory verification of work search actions when requested by the department.

History

History: Cr. Register, July, 1984, No. 343, eff. 8-1-84; CR 06-072: am. (1) (intro.) Register December 2006 No. 612, eff. 1-1-07; EmR1316: emerg. am. (title), rn. (1) (intro.) to (1) and (1m) (intro.) and am., renum. (1) (a) to (d) to (1m) (a) to (d) and am., cr. (1m) (e), am. (2) eff. 9-29-13; CR 13-081: am. (title), (1) (intro.), cr. (1) (am), (bm), renum. (1) (a) to (d) to (1m) (a) to (d) and am., cr. (1m) (intro.), (e), am. (2) Register April 2014 No. 700, eff. 5-1-14.