Getting laid off is a big shock, but how you react makes all the difference. The first step is to apply for unemployment benefits. Details on that follow.
Services range from financial support to help finding a job or retraining for a new career.
The state offers special services to dislocated workers because they are typically highly-productive people who, through no fault of their own, lost their jobs when an industry changed or their skill became outmoded. You are self-employed, but the economy or a natural disaster has put you out of work. Examples include farmers, ranchers, fishermen, etc. You are a displaced homemaker who is either unemployed or working a job that does not support your household. Probably ineligible for unemployment benefits.