No. Because you were in total control of your business/income and therefore not an out of work wage earner, you would not qualify for unemployment.
Yes, if the company was not an exempt one and had been paying payroll taxes to the state.
Example sentence - He did not qualify for unemployment compensation because he has never been employed.
You may qualify, according to the Related Link below, "Worker's Guide to Unemployment Compensation, pp. 8,9. You may also qualify for workers compensation (health issues) if you were sick because of the job.
Yes, military people can file in Oklahoma.
If your company has been paying its unemployment taxes to the state all along, its being bankrupt won't hurt your unemployment benefits because those are paid to you from the state's pool of taxes collected from all the employers. Of course, you still have to qualify as any other claimant, as far as the state is concerned.
The main job is to provide unemployment benefits to those people who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own and otherwise qualify under that state's laws.
Unemployment is reserved for people who lost their employment through no fault of their own, so yes. However, you do need to qualify for unemployment based on your employment history. When you apply for benefits they will advise you if you do qualify based on your wages in the base period that they are using.
In the US, the employer pays a payroll tax to the state, which in turn pays unemployment benefits to workers who qualify In Canada this is funded by the working people of Canada through their mandatory contributions.
You have to be employed at a company for 90 days to qualify for unemployment. In most cases you'll get 50% of your check.
Yes, they are separate programs and you can receive both as long as you qualify for each of them separately.
Yes, as long as you qualify for them individually.
Quitting a job does not qualify for unemployment.
If you are an employee of the cab company because you earn wages, then the company pays unemployment insurance to the state. If you were on straight commission, then they probably do not because commissions do not qualify you for benefits. Each state has it's own requirements as to who pays unemployment insurance.