Unemployment Benefits

You can FILE for unemployment benefits but they will be paid only for the period when you were available for work. For example, if you were hospitalized between 8/01/2014 and 08/15/2014, came home and felt you could return to work on 08/20/2014, your 'waiting period' would start on 08/20/2014 (you should obtain a return to work note from your doctor).

Most companies pay into the unemployment system and, for those jobs, it is available. With Mary Kay, you are likely not an employee, but an independent contractor, which is not covered. Also, to qualify for unemployment, you need to have worked a period of time with earnings that reach roughly a thousand dollars a quarter and must have left due to layoff or involuntary reasons.

Each state's criteria is different. It mainly concerns how much of a burden it becomes on the employee as to whether it's a problem in commuting to work and whether it was beyond the workers control.

Your unemployment benefits are a percentage of what you made while you were working. so if when you were working yo made a high salary, then your unemployment will be high. The idea is that you can maintain a stable lifestyle until you find employment, in the event you lose your job to no fault of your own.

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Creditors can garnish wages in the state of Washington. However, they first have to go through the court system and get a judgment.

First, thanks for cheating the taxpayers. We have enough legitimate debt and really don't need to support liars and cheats.

You are committing government fraud and should go to jail. Most likely they will simply fine you and make you ineligible for unemployment ever again.

If received error, I would make amends, and fix it immediately, it could put you in a bad spot, not only could you be required to pay back, but potentially fined for not reporting that you were receiving it due to known error.

Your benefits will be reduced, but by how much depends on the state you work in.

Yes. If you exceed your maximum weekly unemployment amount in wages you will not get anything from the government. If for instance, your weekly benefit amount was $400 and you earned $200 from your part-time job, unemployment would pay you $200 and make up the difference.

It isn't a question of whether you were in a 'previous state' but whether you had qualified earned income credits and other requirements to receive those benefits. If you weren't qualified there, then no, otherwise, yes.

You can try, but you might very well be "busted" when they run your identification and address into the computer system to verify your eligibility.

You probably won't get any protection/relief for that. First, overpayments and amounts due to most governmental agencies are given a very high priority. Second, and more importantly, is that under almost any instance of you receiving unemployment that you weren't supposed to, it is because of your filing a claim that you weren't alllowed to, or hiding your current employment of such, all of which to collect you swore something different, and is actually able to be pursued as a fraud and crime. The agency is giving you a break allowing you to make it good. Illegal acts, like fraudulently getting UI, are not going to get any protection by the BK court.

No. You must be a citizen to receive benefits.

Yes. The requirements of collecting (actively looking for a job ) are the same but you will need to re-file in the state that you move to in order to continue collecting benefits

You do as long as you comply with the California unemployment laws.

Benefits change each year with the state regulations. Consulting a local SSA office would be the best bet.

Can I collect unemployment benefits if I were laid off by my spouse who's a business is a sole proprietorship and files form 1040 schedule C?

Generally, yes, depending on the state. They would subtract your part time income from your weekly benefits and you'd receive the difference. If your PT income was greater than your benefit, you'd receive nothing.

Yes, you can collect unemployment. But you still need to look for a job. If you are retire you will receive a reduced amount.

Each state has their own requirements but, in general, you wouldn't be eligible for the reasons on leaving the first job. On the second, because the job was lost through no fault of your own, it would depend on the new state's criteria concerning the work history, wages paid, etc. Check with the current state's employment security office for clarification.

Usually you have to have a really good reason to quit your job and unemployment frowns on that - if it is a health issue why don't you get you doctors notes/forms that you will need anyway and go on sick leave or sick benefits.

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I California, for example, to receive unemployment you must be able, willing, ready and available to go to work. If you had to quit for health reasons, however, you might be eligible for California's equivalent Worker's Comp, called State Disability Insurance (SDI). You could be eligible for work or even non-work related injury, illness, or pregnancy/childbirth. But you could not claim both unemployment and SDI, there. Other states may have similar programs, but you can check out California's in the Related Link below.

You have to receive wages from an employer (who pays UI taxes to Arkansas), during at least 2 quarters of the first 4 of the last 5 completed calendar quarters (before the one you file your initial claim). Your total wages must exceed 27 times the WBA (Weekly Benefit Amount)

only if they catch you but right now nobody cares. My ex boyfriend is collecting his emergency extension from NYC beyond 79 weeks while residing overseas. He has not looked for work in a long time and will not be looking for work in USA at all. he was only employed part time in NY for about 16 months and worked on 1099 but still filed for benefits and received them.

He is now claiming every week fraudulently. They extended it again just recently and he is very happy to have a carefree life for the next 20 weeks. Nobody is checking and nobody cares, so there are pretty much no consequences.

The length and amount of benefits available varies by state and prior wage of the unemployed person.

Yes, if you meet eligibility requirements for both programs.

New York repealed the Social Security offset regulations that reduced unemployment compensation for people who were claiming both benefits. Both Social Security and the State of New York allow workers to collect unemployment and Social Security at the same time without applying a penalty to either check.