Within the past decade, nearly all states have changed, or have made plans to change, the process for filing initial claims for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. Formerly, to file a UI claim, workers who became unemployed had to appear in person at a local UI office. Under the new...

Available from: UI Occasional Papers, Unemployment Insurance Service, Frances Perkins Bldg., Room S-4519, 200 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20210. (202) 208-5915 x200, Wayne Gordon. Ask for UIS Occasional Paper No. 97-3.