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If you earn more than 1/4 of your weekly benefit amount in any week, your benefit amount will be reduced by $0.50 for each dollar earned (over 1/4 of your weekly benefit amount). For example, if your weekly benefit amount is $106, and you earn $150.80 in a week, your benefit amount for that week will be $44.

If you are eligible to receive unemployment, your weekly benefit rate will be 1% of your total wages during the base period or 1.9% of your wages in the two quarters of the base period in which you earned the most.

Montana is the only state that is not an at-will-employment state. Montana enforces a "good cause" standard for terminating employment.

To be eligible for this benefit program, you must a resident of Montana and meet all of the following: Unemployed, and. Worked in Montana during the past 12 months (this period may be longer in some cases), and. Earned a minimum amount of wages determined by Montana guidelines, and.

When a claimant is out of work, for them to be job attached: 1. they must have a definite or approximate date of hire or recall, and 2. the work must be covered by Unemployment Insurance, and 3. the work must offer 30 hours or more per week. All three conditions must be met.

If you're incarcerated, on vacation, or in school, or you don't have adequate transportation to get to work, you likely won't be considered able and available to work. In Montana, you must actively search for work each week, keeping a log of your job contacts and other job search activities.