Beginning November 28, 2021: With unemployment claims at pre-pandemic levels, the Department will be reverting back to its regular Monday evening claims processing schedule.

What this means for claimants:

• This change will NOT affect when you receive unemployment insurance payments you are eligible for. When payments are received in your bank account is still dependent upon your banking institution.

• Beginning on Sunday, November 28, rather than showing "paid" or another status, weekly claims filed on Sunday will still say pending for processing until the claim is processed Monday night. This means that the status change you may have been familiar with seeing Sunday evening or Monday morning, will not update again until Monday evening, after the claims processing has completed.

The ReEmployME home page will be changing! For more information, download the informational document (PDF)

To visit the UI Stakeholder Group committee web page, please go to https://www.maine.gov/unemployment/stakeholders/

• Re-employment Checklist
• Maintaining My UI Eligibility

In July 2021, the Maine Department of Labor circulated a brief survey to better understand the barriers faced in returning to work.

• Download the survey results document

The federal Continued Assistance for Unemployed Workers Act of 2020 requires that the Maine Department of Labor verify the identity of all new PUA applicants before the claim is processed. It is also a federal requirement that PUA recipients provide proof of employment.

For more information, please visit the PUA ID and Employment Verification web page.