You can protect your unemployment compensation program if you issue letters of reasonable assurance before the spring semester officially ends.
School districts face a unique circumstance related to employees filing for unemployment benefits: a scheduled break over the summer. In today’s labor market many substitute jobs are going unfilled. Subs are dropping off school rolls, and then trying to file unemployment claims over the summer or winter break.
You can protect your unemployment compensation program if you issue letters of reasonable assurance before the spring semester officially ends.
Letter of Reasonable Assurance 101
Reasonable assurance is a provision in the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act that protects school districts during the summer and other scheduled breaks. A letter of reasonable assurance (LRA) is a written agreement from the school that an employee can expect to return to the same or similar job after a scheduled break, for example, in the next school year.
Employees cannot receive unemployment benefits chargeable to school districts if they have reasonable assurance that they will return to work after a scheduled break.
