If you are residing in the state of Maryland and if you are unemployed, here is good news for you. The Department of Unemployment Insurance of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation of the State of Maryland has made things easier for you to file your bi-weekly continued claim by providing an internet facility called the Maryland Unemployment Webcert. Once your initial claim has been filed, bi-weekly continued claims have to be filed in order to be eligible for insurance benefits to be received. If you don't file biweekly continued claims you will not receive any unemployment insurance benefits.

The bi-weekly continued claim can be filed either through the webcert or the telecert. Both are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Timely filing your continued claims is very essential and it is your responsibility to keep a track of the filing of your continued claims. In order to use the webcert to file your continued claim you will need your 9 digit Social Security Number. Once you submit this number and file your continued claim you will be given a processing number. If you don't get a processing number that means your filing of the continued claim wasn't properly done. If this happens you should not wait, but contact Claimant Information Service immediately. Your prompt action in this connection helps you to receive your insurance benefits uninterrupted. Timeliness of filing continued claims is very important. Timely filing is filing your claim in the webcert within 14 days of the Saturday of the week for which you are claiming benefits. If you are claiming for two weeks, the Saturday will be counted as the one in the second week. No benefits will be paid for the weeks you fail to do timely filing. Also denied will be any claims between the last untimely filed claim and the date you contact the Department of Unemployment Insurance to activate your claim.

When you are making your continued claim it is important that you respond to all the questions in the application honestly, completely and correctly. All responses you provide in your application will become part and parcel of your Unemployment Insurance Record. Attempts to provide false information or failing to provide the required information to obtain benefits or enhanced benefits will be considered as criminal offences and will be dealt with under the relevant laws accordingly. You ca also check online for more information.