UCX eligibility for separated Air Force personnel

CLASSIFICATION

UI/UCX
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
CORRESPONDENCE SYMBOL
Washington, D. C. 20210
TEUMI
ISSUE DATE

June 3, 1987
RESCISSIONS
EXPIRATION DATE

None
June 30, 1988

Directive: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANC E PROGRAM LETTER NO, 27-87

To: ALL STATE EMPLOYMENT SECURITY AGENCI ES

From: DONALD J. KULICK, Administrator for Regional Management

Subject UCX Eligibility Determinations Regarding Air Force Separatees with 4 Years or 6 Years of Active Military Service

1. Purpose. To provide guidance in making UCX eligibi1ity determinations.

2. Reference. UIPL’s 9-83, 13-83 and 25-83.

3. Background. Recently, the Department of the Air Force informed us that an enlisted Air Force
   member may not necessarily qualify for unemployment compensation after 4 years of active
   military service. Some Air Force members are initially enlisted for a 6-year contract under the Air
   Force 6-year enlistment program. Consequently, an Air Force member who is separated after
   serving only 4 years of a 6-year enlistment, does not meet the Federal service criteria for UCX
   entitlement under subparagraph (B)(i) of Section 8521(a)(l), since the member has not completed
   the first full term of active military service initially agreed to, and therefore does not have
   qualifying "Federal service” unless the separation from service falls within one of the fot1r
   exceptions in subparagraph (B)(ii ) of section 852l (a)(l).

4. Instructions . SESAs should advise all appropriate staff members engaged in UCX claims
   activities to question more thoroughly Air Force separatees with 4 and 6-year initial enlistments,
   as shown on the DD Forms 214, about the length of their initial commitment, to prevent improper
   determinations of UCX entitlement. Through thorough and careful interviewing , together with
   the continued utilization of existing operating procedures, improper determinations of UCX
   entitlement under 5 U.S.C. 8521(a)(1) can be greatly reduced, if not eliminated . When
   entries on the DD Form 214 do not clearly show that the individual completed a full term
   of service ( or , if a n officer did not complete the period of service which the member
   initially agreed to serve ) , and the individual alleges to have completed such enlistment or
   service, the SESA should use form ETA B-43, Request for Military Document Information to

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   verify whether or not an individual completed a full term of service. (Refer to Chapter VI of UCX
   Hand book for completing ETA 6-43.) In any case where further assistance or guidance is
   needed, the SESA should contact the appropriate ETA Regional Office.

5. Action Required. Administrators should provide the above information to all appropriate staff
   members.

6. Inquiries. Direct inquiries to the appropriate Regional office.

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