the present study is paid to the evaluation of the welfare program of the unemployment insurance in iran. the main purpose which was the main reason for performing this thesis, was the unemployment insurance plan’s challenges in iran such as financial problems of this plan, prolongation of the credit receipt for some insured people, unemployment slow exiting from the unemployment insurance fund and other problems which made the evaluation requirement of this plan necessary. in the present study we used from three need-based, process-based, outcome-based evaluations. in this study we used from qualitative research method and interview technique with annuity people and also unemployment experts in two labor ministry and social insurance organizations beside the documental study we paid to collect the information. then the collected data analyzed by using from thematic analysis. during the data analysis, 9 basic contents (theme) were identified which includes: lack of coverage of all requirements, organizational time consuming process, lack of comprehensive coverage of all eligibility, abuse from the unemployment insurance, imposing the demands and employer abuse, lack of balancing between the input and output of unemployment fund, re-employment weakness, inequality in statistics and welfare dependant. extracted contents are presented in unemployment insurance welfare program evaluation framework in iran with need-based, process-based, outcome-based challenges. previous studies because of their lack of depth view to the unemployment insurance plan’s problems couldn’t reveal the most important unemployment insurance plan challenges in iran and present studies’ findings in this respect which is obtained during a depth analysis, have high important. finally some strategies for elimination of present challenges are presented.