INTERNET WEEKLY CLAIMS FILING NOW AVAILABLE

Gracia Yancey Backer, Director of the Missouri Division of Employment Security, has announced that a new Internet service is available to unemployed Missourians.  Weekly unemployment insurance benefit claims can now be filed through a Division website at www.moclaim.com

“This new service is beneficial to our customers in a variety of ways,” noted Backer.  “It allows our customers another method of accessing the unemployment insurance system and it expands the hours of service,” Backer said.  The Internet weekly filing is available 24 hours-a-day, 7 day-a-week with the exception of normal maintenance time late Saturday night.

Missouri has been using the Internet to file new and renewed unemployment claims since December 2000.  In 2002, through April 30th, the Division’s website had been visited almost 58,000 times.  “The weekly filing of unemployment claims is the next step in providing additional e-government services to our customers” according to Backer.

The new/renewed claims and the weekly claims can be filed from almost any personal computer with Internet access capability.  Unemployment insurance Internet transactions are kept confidential through the use of a Personal Identification Number (PIN) and current encryption technology.