State of Illinois

Are teachers eligible for unemployment benefits in illinois?

Best Answer: No, only way to qualify for benefits are, educational personnel might qualify for unemployment insurance benefits between and within an academic term if they have sufficient non-academic wages.

Read the excerpt below taken from the Illinois Unemployment Insurance Benefits Hand Book.

Your claim is based on wages that were earned while you worked for an educational institution as a teacher, researcher or administrator, you are between academic terms or you are on vacation or a holiday recess and you have the reasonable assurance of returning the following term. However, educational personnel might qualify for unemployment insurance benefits between and within an academic term if they have sufficient non-academic wages. You will be disqualified if you worked for any educational institution as a bus driver, crossing guard, cafeteria worker, clerk, etc. and you are between academic terms and there is reasonable assurance that you will return to such work in the term that immediately follows. Academic personnel might also be disqualified during a period of paid sabbatical leave.

In these situations you are better off calling the local unemployment office to figure out if you can qualify for benefits or not.

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