Idaho Unemployment Guide
Updated
Where to Apply for Unemployment Benefits
Unemployment Checklist
What information and documents you need.
- Social Security number
- Driver's license
- If you are not a citizen of the United States, your Alien Registration number and card
- Business names, complete addresses including zip codes and phone numbers of all employers for whom you worked during the past 2 years
- Dates your work started and ended for those employers
- Total gross earnings from those employers
- Reason you are no longer working for those employers
- DD Form 214, Member 4, Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty, if you were a member of the military service in the past 2 years
- County of residence if you live outside the state of Idaho
Idaho Benefits Calculator
The base period is the four quarters of earnings that are used to determine how much unemployment you qualify for.
Idaho Department of Labor uses a regular base period of the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters. If you do not qualify using the regular base period, you may qualify using the alternate base period of the last four completed calendar quarters.