 Hi, good morning everyone. My name is Kyle Tweet. I'm the communications coordinator for the Department of Labor. Appreciate you all joining us this morning, this Monday morning, May 10th for our webinar on the work search requirement for unemployment insurance claimants. So today we'll be going through a very step-by-step approach and process for the information that you all need to know as unemployment insurance claimants on what information and what the steps will be for you when you are actually entering the work that you are searching for in the activity that you are doing this week. So just as a reminder, just kind of as we go through this today, do encourage questions in the chat and look forward to getting those and answering very specific questions on what information is needed as you're entering your work search information. So again today, as with all of our past presentations, today's presentation will be recorded and we'll be adding that as a link to our YouTube channel. I'll be providing the link a little bit later on in today's presentation. Under our work search page, there's actually links to all of our past webinars on work search as well as our few of our future webinars in town halls with representatives from our unemployment insurance divisions with links again to past presentations on our YouTube channel. So again, just kind of how today will flow. We'll have a speaker from our unemployment insurance division who I'll introduce in just one second. But again, just in terms of how today will flow, do encourage questions in the chat. Basically how that works is you all submit questions, I review them and add and publish them. So what's helpful for me as the moderator and for our speaker who will be jumping on in just a second is if you can review those questions that are already in the chat and you can actually have the ability to give those a thumbs up, and which means that we'll be filtering questions by how important they are, if you will, to all of you. So essentially, if you can just like questions, if you want to hear them answered, that would be helpful for us. Well, we'll be giving a background on work search today and just kind of, you know, just kind of an overarching view of what to expect and what information. And as I said earlier, what specific steps you have to take in order to enter your work search for those of you who may have never been on unemployment insurance benefits before. Or for those of you who may just need a refresher. In terms of, you know, COVID-19, there are exemptions to the work search. We'll be going over those exemption questions and, you know, those yes no questions and what to expect for that. You know, and then also, you know, in terms of the information that you specifically need for your job contacts, as well when you're entering your work search. So just as again, please feel free to ask any and all questions during today's presentation. Again, just wanted to say I'll turn this over to Deb Bruce from our unemployment insurance division just one second. But again, Deb, you know, as I'll turn it over to you, but again, I think folks just need to know. Obviously, work search was reinstated on May 9th, which was yesterday, but they don't actually have to do anything other in terms of entering the information in terms of the reporting aspect until next week. So this week is really about that work search activity. So with that, Deb, I will turn it over to you to walk us through the presentation. Great. Hello, everyone. My name is Deb Bruce. I'm with the Department of Labor unemployment insurance and wages division. And as Kyle said at the beginning, I'm going to be the representative to take you through the work search requirements and how to capture and report that information when you file your weekly claim. So to repeat that briefly what Kyle just said, we reinstated the work search requirement on the 9th, which was yesterday. And that means that for your work search activities, you will be conducting these activities this week. You will not report your work search information until you file your claim, and that begins as early as Sunday the 16th. So again, you're capturing your work search information during the claim week and you report it when it's time to file that week's claim the following week. And this information must be entered online through the claimant portal. And you can get. Thank you, Kyle. So the very first step is logging into the claimant portal. The quickest way to get there is from the Department of Labor's main website. And on that page, you'll find the quick links section. And right near the top is the link to file your weekly unemployment claim. And so again, that's where you want to begin this process. Information that you'll want to be capturing or taking down for your work search information. I'll go over those specific areas. You'll want to log the date of your contact. So again, dates are important. The work search contacts that you make this week would be dated from the 9th through the 15th. And this information you will enter when you go to file this week's claim beginning with next Sunday. If you want the date of your contact, the type of work you're seeking, that could be just a brief one or two word description. The name of the employer, the employer's address, the person that you contacted. And if there is no specific contact name, you can put something like human resources or personnel. You are responding to an online job search engine such as Indeed or Monster. Oftentimes there will be a job ID or something in the application field to identify the job that you're applying for. If you're lacking any of those types of specific things that you can jot down, just put the name of the engine. So if it was through Indeed.com, you can put Indeed as the contact person. So there's a little bit of flexibility when you're using some of these online job search engines. We would like a phone number as well. There's a method of contact and you will indicate whether that was in person through a resume, a telephone call or email. And then lastly is the result of your job contact and that may be interview or you're still waiting to hear back. That's a very common result. Once you've made the contact, you won't really have a result for some time later. So it's okay to put waiting or pending in that field. Okay, and the work search questions, these are all yes and no questions. There are eight basic questions plus our exemption questions, which we're going to go over right now. And so the specific COVID exemption questions are as follows. Have you been instructed by a health care provider to quarantine due to COVID-19? Have you been instructed by a health care provider to not return to work because you have a serious health condition and returning to work at this time poses a significant risk due to COVID-19? Are you the primary caregiver for a child whose childcare is unavailable as a direct result of COVID-19? Are you the primary caregiver for a child who is attending virtual or remote school as a direct result of COVID-19? Are you caring for a family member who has been instructed by a health care provider to quarantine due to COVID-19? And it's very important to bear in mind that more than one of these may apply. So it's okay to answer yes to one or all of these questions. And again, be thinking very carefully about how the question is worded. And if it does in fact apply to you, if you answer yes to any of these questions, you are exempted from having to enter specific work search information. And you will be bypassed for the page with the work search information. And as things develop, we'll provide more information and any clarifiers on these questions. So any information as it comes in, we'll be making sure to update claimants and providing information on our website. Okay, so again, the minimum requirement for contacts is three each week. You can certainly do more than that on your own, but for unemployment under both federal and state unemployment insurance law, the minimum here is three each week. And as I mentioned before, I'm going to go down the list really quick here. You want to make sure you're recording the date of the contact and the type of work. Employer information such as the name and address. Contact details would be the name of the person you spoke with, phone number and email. And again, if some of this information is not present because you're applying through something like Indeed or Monster. If there is not a job ID number, just put the name of the search engine that you use. And then lastly, method of contact and the result of that contact. And what Kyle is showing you now is what the screen actually looks like. I want to point out the little question marks that you see next to each box. If you're not sure how to enter information or if you need a hint about what to put in that field. You can click or hover on the question mark and that will provide you instruction for that text box. Now this is a screenshot. We're not using a dynamic page so we can't show you what that looks like. But each of these boxes where you see the red asterisk, that means that that's a required field. So you must put information in those boxes. And if you get stuck again right next to those red dots is a little question mark and that's there to help you and assist you with the data entry into those text box. Or text boxes I should say. Okay, and another reminder that these questions are going to be asked of you each week. And you will complete them each week and answer every single one of those questions as they apply to you for that week that you were filing for. And this is also tied to able and available. What we need for information is whether individuals are both able and available to seek work. And again there, this is also where those exemption questions can come into play where folks may be able to work but are unavailable due to a potential COVID qualifying scenario or scenarios. If you do not have a COVID exemption in your situation, then the expectation is that you are able and available for the week you're filing for to be seeking and accepting work. And you must certify that each each and every week that you file. When you finish answering your questions you will be asked to confirm the information that you have provided before you will click on to the next screen in the claimant portal. Okay, and by not completing your work search information that can have an impact on your eligibility for benefits. Be able and available is a week to week eligibility. And by not performing a work search if you are required to perform one that may cause an issue on your unemployment claim and potentially the possibility to repay benefits or receive penalty weeks. On your unemployment insurance claim. So it's very important that you are completing this each week that you file for benefits. For unemployment. Awesome. Thank you so much, Deb. Thank you. I appreciate you walking us through that. I just want to recap the information that Deb just walked us through. So again in terms of the online claimant portal again this presentation was specific to regular unemployment insurance claimants or those on extended benefits through parts of the federal cares act. I did see some questions in the chat about Pua. We will be having some specific set we will have a specific session on Pua for later this week. So I would encourage anybody asking questions about self employer freelancers or general contractors anybody on Pua to attend that later on but just to recap again for those of you who will be filing and reporting your work search next week. You know just as you do on a normal week when you're filing online I know a lot of you have been filing over the phone will get to those questions in just a minute. But you will be file submitting this online. So logging into the claimant portal through the website. You'll first be asking your circumstances so a lot of those yes no questions again I have seen some specific circumstances in the chat. I think what we've talked about before really is for you to self assess and self attest as to whether or not your specific circumstances are specific to COVID. And if your circumstances have your circumstances have been impacted as a result of the pandemic and COVID as a whole. So just answering those yes or no questions not asking you to provide any detail really at this time as a part of the answering of the questions process. So just answering those five questions for those COVID exceptions as Deb said you can answer yes or no to any or all of those. And then once you've worked through those five questions depending on your answers. If you're exempt you won't have to provide information on your job contacts you'll move on to the eligibility questions as you normally would. If you were not exempt from work search you'll be asked to provide the information on each of your three job contacts. So again after you've submitted your job contacts moving through to answer your eligibility questions and confirming your weekly filing. So Deb just wanted to give you an opportunity to add anything to that just providing an overview and a recap of that process for folks that that may hit. So if you have anything to add definitely would encourage you if I missed anything. Sure, sure. One other thing I did not speak to earlier is that to better prepare yourself for filing each week. It's a good idea to make sure that you've gathered all of this information together before you actually start the process of filing the actual weekly claim. There is a timeout for each page. It's it's quite lengthy. It's 30 minutes for each page. So that is quite a long time. But it is possible if you start the process of entering information and then step away to go find information or a phone number. It's possible to time out when you're filing and then you would basically have to start all over the system will not save your information midstream. So it's a good idea to be jotting down this place this information in one place and keeping it for later reference. Another criteria for work search and work search information is work search validation, which the department does do randomly as a requirement under both federal and state unemployment insurance law. At this time we will not be doing that immediately, but that will change in the future. So it's very important to be keeping your weekly work search information somewhere where you can obtain it rather easily in the event you are later asked to validate your work search information to the department. On our website under the claimant forms section. There is a work search form that you can easily download and print if you have that capability. If not anything a notebook a notepad just something to be capturing and keeping this information handy if you needed to provide it in the future. And this may come up in chat questions or may have already been posed but for individuals without a computer. Keep in mind that most libraries and your communities are open for some limited hours at least and most of them have a computer. So that is a good resource. If you are now going to be required to file a work search and you're struggling with a computer. You could also potentially reach out to your local town clerk and they may have more information about resources in your community or things like computer access and Internet. So just a couple of things I wanted to throw out there. That's great. Thank you so much. So I don't want to pivot over to questions before we do that. I just want to remind folks that today's presentation has been reported. I know we've gone through a lot of information in only about 20 minutes. So appreciate you all bearing with us and we'll do our best to answer as many questions today as we can. For those of you who want to go back and review, feel free to search the Vermont Department of Labor on YouTube or go to our website at labor dot Vermont dot gov. You can subscribe to our channel on YouTube. You can go to our website and also just click on the specific links. We should have this reporting up before the before the end of the day today. Just as a reminder, this this process is not anything that you have to worry about for this week, which is because we talked today specifically about the reporting of work search. This week is really about the actual work search activity. So Deb, I just going to go down through the questions again just for those of you who are going through and typing your questions into the chat. I'm trying to add them in as we go through. But if you see a question in the chat, I would encourage you to go back through and like the questions because that's how the most liked questions is kind of the process for how we'll go through the questions for Deb today. So Deb, the first question is from Sarah and I think you actually talked to this, but I think it's a good point to reinforce when applying for position online, whether it be through indeed Glassdoor. I know Vermont job link as well as the requirement for unemployment insurance claimants. Who do you enter as a contact person when entering work search activity? Most online applications don't provide a contact name. So I know you actually talked about this, but I think it's, as I said, a good point to reinforce. Yes, yes. Thank you very much for the question, Sarah. When using one of the example websites that you provided in your question, if there is not a specific recruitment number or alphanumeric identifier for that particular posting that you can reference. The best thing to do is just reference the name of the site or that particular job search engine that you are using. So if it was through indeed.com, you can just put indeed.com in that field as the contact person. Great. Let's see here. Noah asks, I've been hired for position, but it does not start until September. Do I still need to show weekly job search progress? Deb, I know Cameron has talked to this in some of our previous sessions in terms of the return to work date. You know, I think, you know, that obviously is something that that we've talked about this case. As I mentioned, it can have spoken to in previous sessions. I believe it was 10 weeks from your initial, initial claim. You know, I know, you know, certainly there's other sites for activities, but applying the goal of unemployment insurance obviously is to get you back to full time employment. I don't know, Deb, if you have anything to add in terms of Noah's question, or we can certainly refer him back to some of our previous sessions as well. I think this question, and thank you for that question, Noah, may require a little bit more clarification internally. That is correct that the 10, the 10 week waiver begins from the date of the initial claim filing. But with the across the board exemption of work search having been in place for such a long time, what we need to verify is is there going to be a starting date from which we will start to pick up the 10 week going forward. And that is something that I'm not sure of at this time, so we would need to get some more information on that. But that being the case, with the question still a little bit up in the air, Noah, the answer would be yes. You would still need to be conducting a work search if you wish to continue to file up until the start date of your new position. And if that ends up to not be the case, your claim information would be updated and you would then be exempted going forward. So if you are able to send us a little bit more information, we can do some research and provide some better clarity on your question. Yeah, I do just want to add that we are just right up here. We are having a couple more sessions like our previous work search town halls starting tomorrow for work search exemptions, part-time employees and suitable work. So that's tomorrow at 1230. And then we also have a work search town hall specific to PUA claimants on Wednesday for those who may be impacted. Deb, I do want to pivot. I have seen a lot of questions in the chat popping up about claimants who have not been over the last few weeks, months, what have you, to actually file online for whatever reason. And they've been, whether it's calling our claimant assistant center or filing through the, I believe it's the IVR, but the automatic assistance line. I just didn't know if you could provide. I know we are telling people that and we are letting everyone know that they will be able to file online, you know, because that will be part of the requirement to submit their work search information online. So just didn't know if you could address those questions have not necessarily one of the most liked questions, but have seen that kind of popping up as we've been talking today. So just wanted to address that for folks. Yes, yes. With the work search requirement now back in place as of the ninth information must be entered through the online portal as there, there is not a mechanism through the automated telephone system to provide that information. So that's why many folks will see the requirement for them to switch the method in which they've been filing from calling in each week to actually migrating themselves to the online claimant portal. And again, that's due to functionality. There's no mechanism for the phone to intake any sort of work search information. Great. I do want to just let folks know too that we are focusing today on more of the step by step process for entering a work search. So those of you asking questions about, you know, do I have to take a specific job or, you know, relating on salary or, you know, the type of work that's available, I would encourage you to check out our past sessions. The recordings are on our website as well as tomorrow's session will where we'll be getting a little bit more into that, you know, whether it's return to work dates or whatnot. So just kind of looking through again, you know, Deb, I think there's still a lot of questions that I've seen about Matt asks when I've applied or sent in a resume online many times a contact phone number isn't listed. So what should we do in respect to unemployment filing. So again, going back to those just going to scroll back up to the information that we're asking for. Yeah, I know you mentioned if a contact person's name isn't available, but what would be your suggestion whether if it's an email address or a phone number. What's your best suggestion for individuals who may not just have a complete. What's your best list of all the information that's available if they if they if they're applying online. Okay, let's see. So, not having a phone number listed is not all that unusual. We do tend to see that sometimes for the indeed.com type of work search engines that are out there. So once of any phone number, what individuals can do is put all nines in the phone number field. And that would be, for example, 999 dash 999 dash 999 999. So that's a workaround if there isn't isn't any telephone number listed. And because that is a required field, that's that's a workaround that you can use to have information in that field so you can proceed to the next page. Great. Just kind of looking through some of the other questions I think they're more about what can count as a valid work search and I know Cam Cameron has talked this in the past. I was asking can today's town hall or can other webinars that the department puts on even specific on workforce development or virtual job fairs count as a work search contact. I know that Cameron has talked to this in the past that they that none of those things can actually count as a work search contact as it actually needs to be the application of a specific specific job. Yeah, but I don't know if you have anything to add other analysis. I'll just finish by saying that a lot of those specific questions are on our website and there's circumstances that you can look to on our website about what actually classifies as a valid work search job contact. So I'm not sure if you have anything to add to that or if you want to just kind of move through to some of the next questions. I can just speak to that really quickly. What I did this morning was to print off the work search information from our webpage. And I'll just quickly hit specifically the information that's listed under the section of what is an acceptable job contact. And this says that you can satisfy the work search requirement by providing information in the work search section of the online weekly claim that includes any of the following. So this would be submitting an application for a job or jobs that you are reasonably qualified for. Contacting your former employer to inquire if they can bring you back to work at this point or contacting an employer by telephone in person or email with a formal request for hire. And so I'm no worries on trying to remember all that. As I said, I've actually taken this specific information right from the Department of Labor's website on the specifically our work search information page. Great. Thank you for doing that. That's very helpful. Just continuing to go through some of the questions. Let's see here. I'm just kind of going through a couple questions. One from Deb and one from another viewer for today about work search that they may have completed, you know, what about, you know, whether it's applying for a job in previous weeks. So before May 9th. So for the first work search may I use applications completed from the past three weeks. Deb poses a scenario where she applied for a job last week and waits and is waiting to hear back from the organization. You know, I know that you just went through what counts Deb actually goes into having an interview and whether it's this week or next week. You know, in terms of you just went through what actually counts as a job job contact. But I know that the job contacts actually have to take place. I believe during like this specific week. Correct. So, you know, you're voting next week for, you know, think the activities that you did this week. So I'll let you go ahead and explain that. Right. Yes, that's absolutely correct. Kyle. And that is a great question, Deb. But the work search must be conducted in the active claim week that you later file for. So as Kyle just said that would mean that you would be conducting work search activities for the week we are currently in the 9th through the 15th and then you would report three of those contacts when you go to file your weekly claim. So yes, unfortunately, we can't go backwards on those. Thank you. Let's see here. I lost my spot. Just in terms of entering jobs. Is there any information that folks would need to know if they're applying for a job? Let's say they live for jobs in another state. So, you know, if there's any specific information, if they're applying, if they live in Vermont, but close to one of our bordering states, if they're applying for a job in Massachusetts or New Hampshire or New York. You know, this individual is asking, can we do that? But, you know, is there any information that they would need to provide if they're doing that? Anything specific? That's a wonderful question. And no, there is not anything more specific that we would need and to expand on that a little bit. It is in fact okay to look for work out of the state of Vermont. It's not uncommon for individuals to find a position and completely relocate clear across the country. So if you are in that particular situation where you are looking to actually relocate out of the state as part of your work search activities, that's absolutely fine. There's no restriction on residency as it pertains to your work search activities. Great. And then the question, same kind of thing about federal jobs. So it looks like the question is what about federal jobs? There's not usually an email or phone number to contact because they're already on USAJobs. Is it pretty much the same process if an email or phone number wasn't provided? Yeah. A job on indeed. Okay. Yeah, that's correct. Let's see. Just again, as you're looking through the chat, please feel free to look through questions that have already been asked. We're going to try to get through as many as we can. For those questions that we don't get through, I would encourage you to check out our past sessions. I've seen a lot of questions on part-time jobs and how that works. Deb, I'm not sure if you have anything to add on part-time jobs and how to enter that as a whole. I know that can count as one of your weekly contacts. Those that are on part-time work, I believe still do have to submit for three contacts each week, but your part-time job can count for one of your three. Am I correct in any of that? Or did you want to add to anything on part-time for those that are working part-time? That's absolutely correct, yes. So the requirement is still three total work search contacts, but the part-time employer is counted as one. That information would be entered and then just the two additional contacts for the week. Deb, just for those that are wondering, I have a question about what is actually considered to be part-time? Just in terms of the number of hours in a given week. I'll let you address that just again. What is actually considered to be part-time work from our perspective when you're actually entering it in terms of unemployment? Traditionally, we tend to think of part-time as around 20 to 25 hours, but essentially, if an individual is working less than 35 hours in any given week, then under unemployment insurance program rules that individual would be considered underemployed and would be still potentially eligible for benefits. So there isn't really a specific legal definition necessarily. Just that if you are working less than 35 hours, you can still potentially receive a partial benefit for the claim week that you're filing for. Yes, thank you. Sorry, I'm coughing and didn't want to put that on the audio. And so there was a question about part-time work and how many hours in order to still receive the federal $300 benefit. That $300 benefit in debt, please feel free to correct me. I believe is if you receive $1 of unemployment insurance benefits from the state, you do still get that extra $300 as a part of the benefits coming from the federal government through the federal pandemic unemployment compensation of PUC. So again, if you're receiving any benefits from the state, you would still be, in theory, obviously all other eligibility questions, concern, if they answer all your other eligibility questions, you would still be able to receive that extra $300. That's right. Correct. Great. Let's see. And Deb, I think we have about 15, 21 minutes here. So just wanted to try to get to a few more questions before we wrap for today. Just kind of looking through. Let's see here. Just some continued questions about the online portal being fixed so we can file. I've had trouble for my past few weeks of not accepting my PIN, and that had to call. Again, just, you know, I think you've talked about that already, but I know our teams are working on getting some of that fixed. And I know also that it is very much dependent on individual claimants and their circumstances as well. Correct. Correct. Any problems experienced with the online filing itself, you know, if you are attempting to enter information and it's just not working, individuals can still, of course, speak to an agent by phone to try and troubleshoot what might be going on. One tool that the department has on its side is a test filing portal. And we use that in concert when speaking with folks by phone to try and help walk them through what's happening. And oftentimes it could be a formatting issue with a text field or some other thing that is actually tends to be minor. But we have the ability to publish you certain filing problems. And if we do, however, encounter a situation where the portal does not seem to be working, then we can still take claim information and you will still be required to provide your work search information to the department. But we, you know, certainly will approach things on a case by case basis if there are actual filing problems. Great. Thank you. I do just want to encourage folks again just reminding you that today's presentation has been recorded. We have the link up for YouTube channel. It will be up directly on YouTube as well as on our website. I do just want to encourage people as well to check out our website again for continued information that will be updating. I know as well we're going to be sending emails directly to claimants as well. Again, today's presentation really is about the specifics that information you'll need to know when you are submitting for a work search. Again, happy to to look into, you know, some of the other things as we go into some of the other sessions. Deb do have a question here. We've actually talked a lot about indeed and Vermont job link and the other sites that are more of those third party sites. Again, just want to remind folks that Vermont job link is a requirement for unemployment insurance claimants. You do need to have an account in order to be eligible to receive benefits. There's links on how to create an account on our website. So please feel free to check that out. We've also actually uploaded a video to our YouTube channel as well on how to create an account for a job seeker. But Deb actually had a question. What if you apply directly on a company's website, so applying directly through the company, you know, presumably a lot of the information would be directly on the website. But if you can't find a contact person would presume you would presume that you would kind of do something similar to what you do with indeed where you enter the scroll back up to the questions. But just if you want to talk through if you're applying directly to a company through their website. Yes, absolutely. So in the scenario where you're applying to a company's online application portal directly and there isn't a specific name or anything like that provided. You can repeat. You could repeat the name of the company. So, for example, person contacted. You could put IBM and then under address, you know, you could put the address information there. In some situations you may actually have to Google some of the information or search for a few bits of the contact information through the internet. But any anything that is simply not provided. It's always good to point back to the source, the source name of the company or the job search engine that you use to apply for the position. And again the one specific workaround for the phone number information if that's not available is to use all nines for that field. And the email address that is the one field that is not a mandatory field. So if you don't have an email address for the company or a specific person. That's OK. We always like to see that information when it is available. But the email address is not a required field, but everything else is awesome. I have a question here referencing return to work dates and actually where to enter that on the claimant portal. I know it's we don't have a screenshot for that today. But I guess, Deb, if you do have a return to work date that your employer has told you that you'd be able to return to work, whether it's on a part-time or full-time basis. I know you enter that through the claimant portal, but are you able to talk through kind of just where and how to do that? The return to work date information is actually provided and or updated by the employer. And so if a return to work date is now available or has changed, whether it's been pushed out or pushed back to an earlier date, the employer can actually go on the department's website. There is a specific section for the employer community to enter that information themselves through a self-service function. And then that information is then attached to the claim. So it's really the responsibility of the employer to get us that information and not the burden of the claimant. Excellent. Yeah, and so I think it's really just reaching back out to your employer to let the department know that they have had your return to work date has been adjusted, I would assume. Let's see. Certainly, let's just see here. Just trying to go through some of the questions. Do you have a question? Did you say you have to use Vermont Job Link as their sole search engine? As we talked about today, Vermont Job Link is a requirement for unemployment insurance claimants, but you do not need to use solely Vermont Job Link to do your work search. You can apply through Indeed or Monster or any of the other questions as well. Deb, I am just going to scroll back up because I'm kind of getting into some of the questions about specific circumstances, just as a reminder for folks in our last five or 10 minutes here before we wrap up about the COVID exemption questions. I don't know if we just kind of want to walk back through these in our last five or 10 minutes. Again, we are asking these five questions will be asked starting next week as you are reporting your work search. So again, maybe we can just take these last five or so minutes to just kind of go over, just remind folks of what these questions are. I'll give them kind of quickly at the beginning. So just maybe we can just kind of read back through these for those who may have joined late or may have missed one of the questions. So we'll just have you kind of read through the questions and we can talk about a little bit more of kind of what they'll have to do as they're entering their weekly filings. Okay, that sounds great. So the exemption questions are as follows. And again, these questions are yes, no questions and one or possibly all of them could apply to individuals who are filing. So the first question is, have you been instructed by a health care provider to quarantine due to COVID-19? Another question is, have you been instructed by a health care provider to not return to work because you have a serious health condition and returning to work at this time poses a significant health risk due to COVID-19? The next question is, are you the primary caregiver for a child whose child care is unavailable as a direct result of COVID-19? The next question is, are you the primary caregiver for a child who is attending virtual or remote school as a direct result of COVID-19? And then the last question under the exemption questions is, are you caring for a family member who has been instructed by a health care provider to quarantine due to COVID-19? So any one of those or some possibly all of those could be at play in your situation. Now at this time, as we are just starting to roll out both the work search and working through the exemptions, we are not asking for proof of these situations at this time, but that would likely change at some point in the future. So just be keeping that in mind that you may be asked to provide some type of information that verifies one or more of these exemption scenarios. Great. Thank you, Deb. I did see one question that I wanted to address really quick because it was on the type of work field. Actually in here in the the weekly filing and the information they'd have to provide a question was simply can you explain the type of work field would presume individuals just looking for what type of information they would need to put in that field. Oh, absolutely. So for instance, if your job contact was for office work, administrative work, you could put administrative if you are in the construction field or a carpenter or do painting or those sorts of things. But you could simply put painting, carpentry, labor basically just one or two, maybe three descriptors to just give an idea of the type of work that was applied for. Great. So just want to, as we kind of wind down here in the last few minutes, just want to remind folks that today's presentation was recorded. You'll be able to access that through the department's YouTube channel, as well as on our website. We'll also be coming out with more information as the claimant portal is updated with whether it's questions or fine tuning in coming week so we may even have a step by step just how to enter for with each screen. You know, coming soon, but want to at least provide you with the information that you would need to have when entering your work search starting next week as well as what information to keep track of as you are conducting your work search activities really starting yesterday today and until until Friday. So again, a lot more information to come on this specifically and as a work search as a whole again would encourage you to check out our website at labor.vermont.gov. You can click on any of the work search links that are on our website, including tomorrow's virtual town hall session. Work search exemptions, part time employees and suitable work. I had seen a couple questions about explaining, you know, what it is specifically that, you know, suitable work is today and I think we'll really be getting into that, you know, you know, what it is that you're qualified for and salary and all of those types of things. And how even our workforce development division can assist with that as you are kind of going through your work search, your job search and even the re employment process as a whole. So just again as a reminder tomorrow at 1230 tomorrow is Tuesday, May 11 at 1230. We'll be going through that with Cameron Wood, our director of unemployment insurance. And then on Wednesday, like I said earlier, I did see a lot of questions about freelance work and those claimants who are on DUA. So again, that's, you know, you're self employed independent contractors, those folks and even people who didn't necessarily qualify for unemployment, regular unemployment insurance, you know, would encourage you to attend that session on Wednesday. Yeah, I know that information is ever changing. So I appreciate you all for attending today's session. As I said, more information can be found on our website. Please would encourage you to attend future sessions. And Deb, thank you so much for walking us through. Definitely very helpful to kind of go through the information, especially for those who may not have done it before or certainly it's been a while since they've done it. So Deb, thank you so much for taking the time this morning. Thank you. It was a pleasure. I'm very happy for the participation from everyone today. Great. Well, again, thank you everybody so much. Please feel free to reach out or check our website for continued updates on work search. And with that, I hope you have a great rest of your day and a great rest of your week.