How does substitute teaching affect unemployment




















If you have sufficient wages from a non-school job to qualify for benefits, we may be able to pay benefits based on the non-school wages. If you receive reasonable assurance or get a school job after you apply for benefits, call a TWC Tele-Center immediately at and speak with a customer service representative.

Some schools offer financial incentives to persuade employees to resign or retire. If you voluntarily accept these incentives, you might not qualify for benefits. However, if your employer would have laid you off anyway, you might qualify even though you resigned or retired. If you sign a resignation letter rather than accept a layoff it may affect your unemployment benefits because leaving a job voluntarily might disqualify you from receiving benefits.

A teacher in Michigan may work as a full-time teacher or as a substitute teacher. Because each school district in the state functions differently, each has its own rules regarding the hiring of substitute teachers. While some substitute teachers are paid for full-time work, others are only contract employees.

If you are a full-time teacher, then you can file for unemployment if let go, but not if you're a contract employee. Teachers in Michigan are divided into two categories: full-time and contract. While substitutes are usually not entitled to unemployment benefits during recess periods such as Christmas or spring break, summer is a different matter. During Christmas break and spring break, schools are shut down. No one is there and there is no employment to be had.

However, not all schools close over the summer, and when there are open schools there are open opportunities for employment. Since some schools are in session over the summer, substitutes with a reasonable assurance of employment at those schools are entitled to unemployment over the summer months. Now, her payments are frozen, pending the DLIR decision. Koch said this month she has to resume her mortgage payments — including the amount she deferred.

The problem, he said, is that each claim is like its own puzzle — and you need all of the pieces in order to calculate what a claimant is owed. Help keep our journalism free for all readers by becoming a monthly member of Civil Beat today.

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