2005 West Virginia Code - §21A-6-1. — Eligibility qualifications.

§21A-6-1. Eligibility qualifications.

An unemployed individual shall be eligible to receive benefits only if the commissioner finds that:
(1) He has registered for work at and thereafter continues to report at an employment office in accordance with the regulations of the commissioner;
(2) He has made a claim for benefits in accordance with the provisions of article seven of this chapter and has furnished his social security number, or numbers if he has more than one such number;
(3) He is able to work and is available for full-time work for which he is fitted by prior training or experience and is doing that which a reasonably prudent person in his circumstances would do in seeking work;
(4) He has been totally or partially unemployed during his benefit year for a waiting period of one week prior to the week for which he claims benefits for total or partial unemployment;
(5) He has within his base period been paid wages for employment equal to not less than two thousand two hundred dollars and must have earned wages in more than one quarter of his base period; and
(6) Beginning the first day of November, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, he participates in reemployment services, such as job search assistance services, if the individual has been determined to be likely to exhaust regular benefits and needs reemployment services pursuant to a profiling system established by the commissioner, unless the commissioner determines that:
(a) The individual has completed such services; or
(b) There is justifiable cause for the claimant's failure to participate in such services.