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This would depend on the length of your work time vs the period workers comp represents, as to your injury/sickness. Unemployment generally has a base period of 5 quarters that it derives its calculations on, so it's mainly time related.

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Unemployment and Workers Comp are two different programs, qualification for one does not depend on the other.

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