Unemployment Estimate

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Unemployment benefits in Delaware

$450Maximum weekly benefit

$450 a week for benefit years beginning April 2, 2023 and later12

The details

Minimum weekly benefit
$20 a week.12
How the weekly amount is figured
One forty-sixth of wages in your two highest calendar quarters of the base period.1
Maximum weeks
Normally 26 times your weekly benefit amount.1
Base period
The first four of the last five completed calendar quarters.1
How to apply
File an initial claim online at uics.delawareworks.com.1

The sources we read do not say: waiting week.

Sources

  1. Claimant FAQs, Delaware Department of Labor, checked 2 November 2026
  2. Laws of Delaware Volume 84 Chapter 2 (House Bill 49), Delaware General Assembly, checked 2 November 2026

Checked 2 November 2026. "Secondary" marks a source used only because the official page could not be read.