A: If you receive a call to jury duty, you will still be able to receive benefits. This is true, whether you receive a call to a grand or petit jury of any state or of the United States. We consider you ready, willing and able to work while serving on jury duty.
Jury duty pay most times is well below your combined uc rate, so you will be eligible to collect a partial for that week. So, there is no monetary issue, unless of course, you are being paid jury duty pay that is above your combined rate on the uc claim. The issue is being able and available. If you are serving on jury duty, or just sitting in a room waiting to be called for duty, you are not realistically attached to the job market, thus, making yourself not able and available for work, which is a condition of collecting uc benefits. If you want to claim the week, open a claim, or reopen an existing claim and inform the uc interviewer you served on jury duty and want to file for the week involved. Be sure to give the dates you served and how much you earned. The uc office will pend the week and send a questionnaire or statement taken from you to the adjudication section and a determination will be made. If you disagree with the outcome of the determination, you may file an appeal. First to the uc referee, then to the board of review, and finally to commonwealth court.
