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When you file an unemployment insurance claim you must accurately report the circumstances of your employment certain requirements must be met in order to receive benefits one of these requirements is that you must be out of work through no fault of your own reporting false information or withholding information can result in serious consequences for example if you do not accurately report a job separation, or you fail to report any earnings while receiving unemployment that may be considered fraud here are some possible consequences you would have to pay back any benefits you receive that you are not entitled to plus you could face a charge of up to 30 of the overpayment amount you could receive as many as 50 to penalty weeks a penalty week is a week in which you claim and meet all the requirements, but you will not receive payment this means that should you ever follow for unemployment again you would have to claim your penalty weeks before you could start receiving benefits you could also face criminal prosecution we use the term separated to refer to being out of work for example we might ask what was the reason for separation from your previous employer what we're really asking is why you no longer work for that employer let's take a look at the various reasons for separation and what they mean the three most common reasons for separation are lack of work discharge and voluntary quit lack of work simply means there is no longer any work to do this could be because your employer has gone out of business or shut down their operation it also applies if you were hired as a seasonal employee, and you're laid off during the slow time of the year you will voluntarily quit your job if your employer still has work available for you, but you are no longer willing to work for that employer for example you may have accepted a new job offer decided to start your own business or enrolled in school, or you may have decided to quit because your employer reduced your work hours if your former employer still needs the work done that you used to do, and they just have someone else to do it then you have been discharged not laid off you have been discharged if your former employer still has work available, but they are no longer willing to employ you to do it employees are often discharged for failing to meet their employers expectations or because according to the employer the employee violated a company policy other terms employers often used to describe discharging an employee include fired let go and terminated if you have been discharged answer discharge or suspension is the reason for separation when filing your initial claim for unemployment benefits or restarting your claim answer yes to the question were you fired or suspended from a job last week when filing a weekly claim these three situations lack of work voluntary quit and discharge cover most unemployment insurance claims if none of these apply to you, you may fall into a less common category...