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Do teachers from International Schools qualify for unemployment in their home country if their contracts are not renewed because of the . and decreased enrollments?

Not in the United States.

Depends on the home country but typically no. Depending on the region, they may qualify for unemployment compensation under the host countries social insurance scheme.

Interesting how the word 'v I r u s' was edited out of the original post.

If you are American, no.

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Not in the UK or Canada.

I know that some international schools are quite American--I believe friends who taught at Taipei American School, for example, paid into the US social security system. There might be a few cases where you could claim, but not as a general rule.

mamava wrote:
> I know that some international schools are quite American--I believe
> friends who taught at Taipei American School, for example, paid into the US
> social security system. There might be a few cases where you could claim,
> but not as a general rule.

I was just going to post this. For Americans, if you were working at one of the handful of schools that pays into SS for American employees, you could, in theory, file for unemployment in the state where your school had its US office or presence. Now, what happens if you have no other connections with that state and no address there, and you try to file for unemployment? It would be interesting to know. I suspect some states might try to deny the claim.

No you couldnt. US SS has nothing (well very little) to do with unemployment (UI). UI is just a state run insurance program, that employers pay into. Paying into SS buys you nothing into UI unless your IS is paying into the state UI fund and they very likely arent.