General requirements for benefits. There are several requirements for getting unemployment insurance benefits. In general, unemployment insurance benefits are not payable to workers who are sick or unable to work for any other reason. However, a few States continue to pay the benefits within the legal limits to workers who became ill after they had established their claims. Become unemployed because of a stoppage of work as the result of a labor dispute, in which you are interested or participating, that occurred at the establishment where last employed.
Many States can disqualify claimants for other causes.
Disqualification in some States amounts to postponement of benefits for a few weeks. In other States, benefits are reduced as well as postponed. Except under limited conditions, your work credits cannot be canceled or your benefit rights taken away completely because of a disqualifying act.