Unemployment After Quitting in Iowa

You are disqualified if you quit without good cause attributable to your employer, until you have earned 10 times your weekly benefit amount in insured work. You are not disqualified if, for example, you quit to accept other or better work that you then performed, because a military spouse was relocated, to care for an injured or ill immediate family member (and then offered to return), because of illness, injury or pregnancy on a doctor's advice (with notice and an offer to return once recovered), or instead of bumping a less senior coworker.

Your appeal must be postmarked or received within 10 calendar days from the decision date (moved to the next working day if the tenth day is a weekend or holiday). File online through your IowaWORKS account or mail the appeal form to the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Bureau, 6200 Park Avenue, Suite 100, East Entrance, Des Moines, IA 50321. An Administrative Law Judge's decision can be appealed to the Employment Appeal Board within 15 calendar days of its mailing date. Keep filing weekly claims while a fired-or-quit protest is being decided.