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What is Unemployment Insurance?
The Utah UI program is a federal/state partnership established over 60 years ago to provide temporary financial assistance to eligible unemployed workers. This program provides economic stability to workers, families, communities and the Utah economy as a whole.
Eligibility for UI benefits is based on the wages you have earned, not on your individual or family financial resources. Additionally, you must be able and available to accept full-time work to qualify for UI benefits. As such, UI is not welfare, Social Security, workers compensation or disability assistance.
Benefits paid through the Utah UI program are funded entirely through a dedicated tax paid by employers, meaning that you as a worker do not pay any portion of benefit costs or UI taxes.