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  • employmentsearch 200x300 North Carolina Unemployment Office: Can I File For Benefits While Retraining?

    Finding a job might require you to go back to school. But will you qualify for unemployment benefits if you do?

    North Carolina has an unemployment rate of 9.6 percent of its active population. That puts it in 15th place of the league of states with highest unemployment rate. That equates to to 427,000 unemployed people which are able and willing to work. If you are one of those 427,000 unemployed workers, chances are you have questions about unemployment benefits. This website seeks to answer questions you might have about unemployment benefits and the Employment Security Commission in North Caroline. This article will reply to a question we get asked a lot. The question comes from Mrs Elder. She asks: Can I continue receiving unemployment if I go back to school for retraining?