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The Virginia Employment Commission is pleased to provide you with easy access to workforce services for businesses, employers and citizens, job opportunities, and labor market information in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

ATTENTION: Customers seeking unemployment assistance are encouraged to use our online services as a first option since they will be able to reach the VEC quicker than by telephone.

If you must use our phone services, the toll free number to call is 1-866-832-2363

Customers with a social security number ending with an odd number are asked to call on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday.
Customers with a social security number ending with an even number are asked to call on Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday.
This process will not affect the benefit amount or adversely delay the processing of the customer’s claim for benefits.

In an effort to better accommodate our customers, the Virginia Employment Commission's customer contact center will be open from 8:15 a.m. to noon on Saturdays .

VEC offices and the Customer Contact Center will be open during regular business hours on
Friday, January 16.

Announcements / Press Releases

• UI, reemployment, and training information for recently laid off Circuit City employees.

• VEC Pilots Program to Assist Customers|

- 12/31/2008

Notice: The VEC takes all applications for Unemployment Insurance and EUC at no cost to you. THE VEC IS NOT AFFILIATED with any private websites or companies that offer fee-based advice or services to individuals wishing to file for these benefits.

The VEC administers a variety of programs that may provide temporary income to workers who have become unemployed.

Unemployment benefit eligibility requirements for state employees: separated under the Workforce Transition Act.
File a Claim/UI Services: To file a claim, reopen a claim, make your weekly claim for benefits or change your payment option online!
To file a new claim by telephone, call toll free 1-866-832-2363.
To file a weekly claim by telephone, call toll free 1-800-897-5630.
If your claim is not accepted online, you may print a claim application form (VEC-B-10), fill it out and mail it to your nearest VEC service location.
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	> Post Job Openings > Unemployment Insurance > Warn Notices (Plant Closings/Layoffs > Employer Tax Filing/Registration > Employer Handbook
	> Current Job Fairs > Find a Job > Unemployment Insurance > Claimants/Job Seeker Handbook > Register for Job Services Online
	> Veterans' Employment & Training > Virginia Dept. of Veterans Services > Department of Veterans Affairs > Transition Assistance
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	> LMI Home > Labor Market Data > Community Profiles > Area, Industry & Occupational Profiles > Publications

General Links of Interest

• Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Advisory Board|
• Virginia Tax Reform Issues|
• Guidelines For Access to VEC Data VEC-GD-1(03)|
• Social Services, Virginia Department of |

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