471-030-0040 Initial, Additional, and Reopened Claims (1) As used in these rules, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) "Claimant" is an individual who has filed an initial, additional, or reopened claim for unemployment insurance purposes within a benefit year or other eligibility period; (b) An "initial claim" is a new claim that is a certification by a claimant completed as required by OAR 471-030-0025 to establish a benefit year or other eligibility period; (c) "Additional claim" is a claim certification by a claimant completed as required by OAR 471-030-0025 that restarts a claim during an existing benefit year or other eligibility period and certifies to the end of a period of employment; (d) "Reopened claim" is a certification by a claimant completed as required by OAR 471-030-0025 that restarts a claim during an existing benefit year or other eligibility period and certifies that there was no employment in any week since last reporting on this claim; (e) "Backdating" occurs when an authorized representative of the Employment Department corrects, adjusts, resets or otherwise changes the effective date of an initial, additional or reopened claim to reflect filing in a prior week. Backdating may occur based upon evidence of the individual's documented contact on the prior date with the Employment Department or with any other state Workforce agency, or as otherwise provided in this rule. (2) For the purposes of filing an initial, additional, or reopened claim: (a) When delivered in person to any Employment Department office in the state of Oregon, the date of filing shall be the date of delivery, as evidenced by the receipt date stamped or written by the public employee who receives the document; (b) When filed by mail, the date of filing shall be the date of the postmark affixed by the United States Postal Service. In the absence of a postmarked date, the date of filing shall be the most probable date of mailing as determined by the Employment Department; (c) When filed by fax, the date of filing shall be the encoded date on the fax document unless such date is absent, illegible, improbable or challenged, in which case the fax receipt date, if available, shall be the date of filing. If a filing date cannot otherwise be determined, the filing date shall be the most probable date of faxing as determined by the Employment Department; (d) When filed by Internet, the date of filing shall be the initial date of transmission of the online claim; or (e) When filed by telephone, the date of filing shall be the date recorded in the completed telephone initial claim record of the agency system or by an employee completing the filing of the claim record. (f) An incomplete certification must be completed and returned within seven business days from the date of notification that the original was incomplete to preserve the original date of filing. (3) An initial, additional, or reopened claim must be filed prior to or during the first week or series of weeks for which benefits, waiting week credit, or noncompensable credit is claimed and prior to or during the first week of any subsequent series thereafter. An initial claim is effective the Sunday of the calendar week in which it is filed. An authorized representative of the Employment Department will backdate an additional or reopened claim to the calendar week immediately preceding the week in which the request to backdate was made when a claimant requests backdating of the additional or reopened claim. (4) The provisions of this section do not apply to an individual claiming benefits as a "partially unemployed individual," as defined in OAR 471-030-0060. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 657.610 & 657.155 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 657.155 & 657.260 History: ED 17-2018, minor correction filed 01/11/2018, effective 01/11/2018 ED 2-2014, f. 1-15-14, cert. ef. 2-23-14 ED 1-2014, f. 1-3-14, cert. ef. 2-23-14 ED 2-2013(Temp), f. 8-22-13, cert. ef. 9-1-13 thru 2-26-14 ED 14-2003, f. 12-12-03 cert. ef. 12-14-03 ED 1-1987, f. & ef. 1-12-87 1DE 1-1982, f. & ef. 6-30-82 1DE 152, f. 9-28-77, ef. 10-4-77 1DE 150, f. & ef. 2-9-76