Michigan Unemployment Office

Your Michigan Unemployment office is one stop shopping to help you, the out of work Michigan resident, get back onto the roles of the employed, or to assist you in filing for your unemployment in Michigan, but the Michigan Unemployment Office can do so much more for you than just help you to file for your unemployment or to give you the jobs that are open currently in your area.

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The recent extension of federal benefits by Congress was welcomed by thousands of unemployed Michigan workers who rely on extended benefits as their main source of income. However, what many did not realize is that with the same bill Congress both extended and reduced the benefits Michigan workers are eligible for.

The bill allowed unemployed workers who exhaust their emergency unemployment compensation benefits to continue applying for federal extended benefits, but it reduced the amount of weeks they are eligible for.