AZ HB2108

Modifies work search requirements for unemployment benefits by requiring applicants to conduct at least five work search actions per week (such as submitting resumes, completing applications, attending interviews, or attending approved training) and provide weekly reports to the department detailing these actions.

Establishes mandatory cross-checking of unemployment claims against multiple data sets including the National Association of State Workforce Agencies' Integrity Data Hub, federal new hire directory, state corrections databases, Social Security prisoner records, and vital statistics death records before benefits are paid.

Requires employers to report to the department when previously employed individuals refuse to return to work, refuse suitable work offers, fail to appear for interviews, or fail to respond to employment offers, with the department conducting independent review of each report.

Increases the earnings requirement to lift disqualification for failure to accept suitable work from four times the weekly benefit amount to eight times the weekly benefit amount.

Updates technical language throughout unemployment insurance statutes, including modifying suitability standards for offered work and clarifying that work is suitable if it pays at least 120 percent of the weekly benefit amount after four weeks of unemployment.