If you are receiving a pension at the time of your new claim, have your Social Security card and documentation of the amount you are being paid when you phone in your new claim. If you start receiving a pension after your claim for unemployment has been filed, phone the TeleBenefits Line when you actually receive your pension benefits. Please have your Social Security card and documentation of the amount of benefits you are receiving.
 

For good cause to be attributable to the employer, it must relate to the wages, hours, or working conditions of the job. A change in conditions created by your employer or a breach of your employment agreement which is substantial and adversely affects you may be good cause to quit. Also, if the job itself adversely affects your health or aggravates or worsens a medical condition, it could be good cause to quit. 

Regardless of the cause, in most cases, good cause attributable to the employer may only be found if you took reasonable steps to inform your employer of your dissatisfaction and sought to remedy the problem before you left. If you quit, it is your burden to prove that there was good cause for leaving. When applying for benefits, after quitting a job, you will be scheduled to attend a pre-determination hearing to establish whether you had good cause for leaving. Your employer will be notified of this hearing and will be invited to attend or to send in a written statement.
 

• Willful misconduct in the course of your employment. The term wilful misconduct means deliberate misconduct in wilful disregard of the employer's interest, or a single knowing violation of a reasonable and uniformly-enforced rule or policy of the employer, when reasonably applied, provided such violation is not a result of the employee's incompetence. In the case of absence from work, an employee must be absent without notice or good cause on three separate instances within a 12-month period;
• Conduct which is a felony under the law and occurred in the course of your employment;
• Larceny of property or service whose value exceeds $25 in the course of your employment;
• Participation in a strike which is illegal under law or regulations;
• You were sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 30 days or longer and had begun serving that sentence;
• You were discharged or suspended because you were disqualified by law from performing the job for which you were hired as a result of a drug or alcohol testing program mandated by law;
• If you are discharged, it is the employer's burden to prove that there was wilful misconduct. When applying for benefits after being discharged or suspended from a job you will be scheduled to attend a pre-determination hearing to determine eligibility. Your employer will be notified of this hearing and will be invited to attend or to send in a written statement.
   

• National School Lunch Program (Conn. State Department of Education)
  Children may become eligible for the free lunch program upon a change in a parents' financial circumstances.
   

• Contact United Way's 2-1-1 infoline program. This is a free referral service, with information about workforce programs, community services, basic needs assistance, crisis intervention and much more. 2-1-1 is toll-free from anywhere in Connecticut and it operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The service offers multilingual operators and TTY access. You can reach this service by calling 2-1-1 or visit the United Way website at www.211ct.org.
   
• If you haven’t been to one yet, visit a CTWorks Career Center. These Centers offer no-cost workshops, career counselors, résumé assistance, computers with Internet access, recruitment events, job postings, referrals and more – all designed to help you with your job search. The Centers can also see if you may be eligible for special training programs, tax credits or employment services offered through community groups.  The Centers also offer recruitment events – visit http://www.ctdol.state.ct.us/ctworks/pos-recruit.html for a list of scheduled employer recruitments.
   
• Visit CT JobCentral, which provides a no-cost electronic job bank. You can post your résumé, search for jobs, access career sites, research companies, and review interview tips. You can access CT JobCentral at http://www.ctdol.state.ct.us/progsupt/jobsrvce/BackToWork.htm.
   
• Information regarding the Subsidized Training and Employment Program (Step Up), summer and seasonal jobs  at state agencies that are open to all jobseekers, and the Veterans Manufacturing Job Match program can be found on the main page of the Labor Department’s web site at www.ct.gov/dol