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In an effort to improve the service offered by the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency and to simplify the process unemployed workers must use to claim for benefits, the Michigan UIA set up MARVIN. MARVIN stands for Michigan’s Automated Response Voice Interactive Network.
MARVIN
This system allows you to fill in the claim form by using a phone. However, not any phone will work. You phone must be a touch tone or a push button phone. Note that in some phone’s you must push a switch to “tone” for it to work. Old phones that do not have a tone option will not work.

Learn how to use MARVIN
Many of our readers have expressed their frustration with Michigan’s UIA MARVIN. MARVIN stands for Michigan’s Automated Response Voice Interactive Network, and is the new system Michigan unemployed workers must use to process their unemployment benefits claims.
The complaints range from long waiting periods to being unable to process their benefits application. This article gives you a quick guide on how to use MARVIN and get your biweekly certification processed as quickly as possible, so you can get back to what you really want to do –find a job.

You have up to three weeks to apply for a compensation benefit.
If you are not careful you could lose unemployment benefits by not applying for your benefits on time. Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance Agency understands it sometimes can be difficult to find the time to process your benefits certifications when looking for work.
Traveling back and forwards to the unemployment office can also wast time and money. That is one of the reasons Michigan’s UIA installed MARVIN, Michigan’s Automated Response Voice Interactive Network. You can apply with MARVIN over the phone once every two weeks to certify your benefits and continue receiving your unemployment checks. But, what is the time limit to apply for unemployment compensation in Michigan.