New Mexico Unemployment Benefits

Unemployment Resource

Website: http://www.jobs.state.nm.us

File a claim

To file your claim for unemployment insurance benefits in New Mexico, go to your Department of Labor local workforce development center. Bring your social security card and the names and addresses of the places you worked during the past 18 months.

Find the Department of Labor local workforce development center near you.

In New Mexico, your claim is based on wages you earned in a 12-month period and never based on wages for the last three months prior to filing your claim. You must have wages in two different quarters of that 12-month period. There are legal minimums that must be earned during this period, but generally, anyone who works five months will be monetarily eligible.

The maximum amount payable on any UI claim is 26 times your weekly benefit amount, sometimes less, depending on total amount of wages earned. If you file continuously, you run out of money in your account at the end of six months (or less).

If you go back to work full-time, your benefits will be discontinued until such time as you are out of work (through no fault of your own) and file an additional claim. If your benefit year has not expired, you will continue to draw benefits on the original claim until you exhaust benefits, re-enter the work force, or your benefit year expires, provided you meet all the eligibility requirements.

Provided you meet all the eligibility requirements, and you are out of work through no fault of your own (i.e., lack of work), you can expect to receive your first check within one week from the time you mail your first certification.

Source: New Mexico Department of Labor