To qualify for Unemployment Insurance benefits, you must:
Have earned enough wages to establish a monetary entitlement: You must have base period earnings equal to or exceeding one and onehalf times the high quarter earnings, or wages in each of at least three of the four quarters in the past base period. In both conditions, you must earn at least $400 in the high quarter.
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