Reemployment Case Management and Unemployment Insurance Processing (5501XD) - Workforce Development, Department of

This bill (5501XD) requires Iowa's Department of Workforce Development to establish a mandatory reemployment case management program for unemployment claimants. It directly affects individuals filing for unemployment benefits who must participate in this program to maintain eligibility, starting within two weeks of filing an initial claim. The program provides individualized job search services to claimants no longer attached to work, replacing previous work search requirements for certain groups like partially unemployed workers. The bill modifies eligibility rules (Section 96.4) and creates the new program requirement (Section 96.11, subsection 17) without changing benefit amounts or payment schedules.