Opinion ID: 2365217
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Unemployment Eligibility Generally

Text: An unemployed [4] individual is eligible to receive benefits if the Department finds that all of the terms in title 19, section 3314 of the Delaware Code are met. This includes such factors as making a proper claim for benefits and being able and available for work. Notwithstanding the eligibility factors of section 3314, a claimant may be found to be disqualified from benefits if one of the factors in title 19, Section 3315 of the Delaware Code is present. These are factors such as being discharged from one's work for good cause or voluntarily terminating one's employment without good cause. In this case, the Department did not dispute that the claimants met all of the eligibility factors in section 3314. Instead, the Department argues that the claimants were disqualified from benefits under section 3315(1) for voluntarily terminating their employment without good cause. It is well settled that a voluntary relinquishment of employment for good cause must be for reasons connected with the work and those reasons must be objectively reasonable.