The Michigan Unemployment web site, or more appropriately named, the Unemployment Insurance Agency of Michigan, located at http://www.michigan.gov/uia is the main site for Michigan Unemployment benefits and compensation.
Michigan unemployment insurance benefits are a necessity for you to file for when you’re out of work through no fault of your own. Michigan unemployment benefits are paid for through your former work.
Application for them is far easier now than it has ever been before, due to the advent of the internet. Filing for your Michigan unemployment benefits online is faster, easier, gets your benefit checks out more quickly and keeps your filing far more private.
You can file for unemployment benefits on the Michigan unemployment web site by following the wizard type formatting that appears to you on the unemployment site.
The unemployment web site for Michigan also offers you the chance to do a job search for Michigan jobs, as well as entering into a job matching service and uploading and keeping current a resume which will be held for about 60 days.
UIA offers multiple benefits for the unemployed worker from the Michigan unemployment web site. Workers who are unemployed and collecting benefits can also complete their required certifications and recertifications through what is known as MARVIN, (Michigan’s Automated Response Voice Interactive Network), instead of calling the toll-free MARVIN telephone number.
If you are claiming unemployment benefits you are required to certify with MARVIN every other week. This must be done in order to receive your unemployment benefit checks. Certifying online for your biweekly checks using the Michigan unemployment web site is far less time consuming than filing any other way.
Michigan Unemployment web site along with the MARVIN telephone claims are available only at certain time periods. Those time periods are dictated by the last two digits of your social security number.
Displaced workers who have applied or been given Michigan unemployment benefits do have to contact the MARVIN either by telephone or online at the Michigan unemployment website once every two weeks. This is done to certify that you remain eligible for the benefits you are receiving.
Contacting MARVIN either online or via telephone is necessary to keep your benefits and must be done according to the schedule for your SSN last digits.
Contacting MARVIN via the web site is somewhat faster, but you may also contact the service via telephone at
Via telephone you may also file a new claim or reopen a claim for benefits by calling the Michigan UIA toll-free telephone number at 1-866-500-0017. YOu may file using touch-tone telephone from anywhere in the USA or Canada, while the TTY callers can telephone 1-866-366-0004 to file their claims.