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Help for employees who need to bond with a new child or care for a loved one but have not recently worked and/or are receiving unemployment insurance.

About the program, MOVENI

If your first day of family leave is more than 14 days after your last day of covered employment in New Jersey and you do not have an employer-approved leave of absence, you may be eligible for Family Leave During Unemployment Insurance (FLDU), a combination of family leave and unemployment insurance. 

Benefits can be requested for:

  • Bonding with a newborn, newly adopted child, or newly placed foster child
  • Caring for a family member with a physical or mental health condition, including COVID-19 (see the broad definition of “family” under the law at myleavebenefits.nj.gov/caregiver),
  • Address issues related to domestic or sexual violence, whether you or a loved one is a survivor/victim.

Most New Jersey workers are eligible.

To be eligible you must:

  • Have earned at least $12.000 total or $240 a week for 20 total weeks from a job in the 18 months prior to the start of your application; Y
  • Meet all Unemployment Insurance requirements, except to be “available” for a possible job due to the need for bonding or care leave.

Receive up to 60% of your average salary, up to $804/week.

Benefits are paid for full calendar weeks, beginning on Sunday and ending on Saturday. If you have a claim for Unemployment Insurance or Unemployment Disability within that benefit year, you will normally receive the same benefit percentage that you received on your previous claim.

Receive up to 12 weeks of benefits

Family leave during unemployment benefits can be claimed for up to 12 consecutive weeks in a 12-month period or up to eight weeks in a 12-month period if benefits are claimed intermittently on a week-to-week basis. Each week claimed must be on a Sunday through Saturday schedule. The 12-month period begins on the first day of requested family leave and lasts for 365 consecutive days thereafter.
 
Apply for benefits online at myleavebenefits.nj.gov/unemployed
 
You can start the online application process up to 60 days in advance and be saved as a draft. Once your license begins, you must return to your draft (within 14 days of the start of your license) to certify and apply. If the application is submitted after the start of your family leave, you will have 30 days from the first day of the application to submit it. Approval of the application and payment of benefits can take four to six weeks, once we have a complete application.
 
Learn how it pays at myleavebenefits.nj.gov/unemployed

For more information visit: Paid Family Leave While Unemployed

Source: NJDOL-  Family Leave During Unemployment.

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