Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Unemployment Insurance

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State Unemployment Benefits in Colorado

The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment administers unemployment insurance through the MyUI+ system. Benefits are paid only for weeks the claimant personally certified and requested payment, and survivors take any remaining question about a claim to the Claimant Service Center.

Steps to takeKey facts

Steps to take when someone dies

1
Contact the Colorado Division of Unemployment Insurance Claimant Service Center at 303-318-9000 about the deceased's open claim.
2
Expect no survivor payout of the unemployment claim itself: benefits are paid only for weeks the claimant certified and requested through MyUI+, and Colorado law provides no survivor or estate successor to a UI claim.
3
Pursue any unpaid final wages from the employer under C.R.S. 8-4-109(4), which routes them to the surviving spouse or next legal heir when no personal representative has been appointed.

State Unemployment Benefits in Colorado: key facts

What Colorado says3

Claimant portal

MyUI+ at cdle.colorado.gov/ui/claimants/myui is where a claimant certifies weeks and requests payment.1

Benefits at and after the death

Benefits are paid only for weeks the claimant personally certified and requested payment through MyUI+.2

Colorado's Employment Security Act (C.R.S. Title 8, Articles 70-82) has no provision paying a deceased claimant's benefits to survivors or the estate.3

Wages the employer still owed

Separately from unemployment insurance, C.R.S. 8-4-109(4) has an employer that owed the deceased wages or compensation at death, where no personal representative has been appointed, pay the earned, vested, and determinable amount to the surviving spouse, or if none, to the next legal heir on request.3

The employer requires proof of the claimant's relationship by affidavit, and payment discharges the employer's debt.3

Not in Colorado's published guidance1

  • A deceased-claimant procedure

Sources3

  1. 1.MyUI+ (Colorado Department of Labor and Employment)
  2. 2.Unemployment Insurance for Claimants (Colorado Department of Labor and Employment)
  3. 3.Colorado Revised Statutes 2024, Title 8 (official printout)

Colorado unemployment benefits

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