Unemployment Benefits

Your employer normally give you this type of document on your way out of the door. You can either keep the papers or if you would like to make a withdraw from your 401K, just fill out the paper and send it to the address(usually stated on the paper).

After you're approved, your first check is normally sent after about one week. The payment represents the period up to the last time you worked, which means you need to file for unemployment as soon as you lost your job, to avoid any delay.

Not if you are an independent contractor.

if you qualify your unemployment extends into the EUC, emergency unemployment compensation. obama just signed the extension in dec 2010 that extends benefits until dec 2011. if you exhausted your regular benefits you will apply for EUC and begin tier 1 of benefits (20 weeks) then tier 2 (14 weeks) tier 3 (13 weeks) and tier 4 (6 weeks) after that you could qualify for SEB, state extended benefits (20 weeks) if all of the EUC has been exhausted before 12/31/11

2 weeks

can you collect unemployment and make withdrawls from a 401k when 591/2 in maine

Depends on time on the job, you will have to check your State's requirements for req'd duration.

You will need to apply for unemployment in the state that you were employed.

Yes as long as you have enough time in the required time frame at the job to collect it. Unemployment benefits are determined by if the loss of the job was by no falt of you own and your looking for another job did not affect your performance in your current job so it was not a justification to fire you unless you looked for a job while you were supposes to be actually doing your current job and it was keeping you from carrying out the duties of your current job then it would be pretty much your own falt.

The church is not the one that pays the unemployment benefits...it's the state in which the worker worrks. In addition, most states allow churches an exempt status, meaning they do not pay a payroll tax to the state, thereby the worker may not be entitled in the first place.

This depends entirely on the state you work in. Some states allow both, others offset the unemployment benefits by the portion the employer paid into the pension, etc.
This depends on several factors: 1) If you are truly "retiring", then no, because you have to seek full time employment 2) The type of retirement (Social Security always is allowed, but Illinois, Louisiana, Utah, and Virginia offsets your unemployment by some factor of the Social Security benefit), and 3) The state involved, as they all have different regulations concerning other income beside your benefit.

Just go to the E.R. and tell them it's a work comp claim. They will take it from there.

In Minnesota, if your normal working hours are reduced to below 32 hours, you may be eligible for partial unemployment, according to the Related Link below.

A quarter is a three-month period.

1st Quarter (Q1) = January 1 through March 31

2nd Quarter (Q2) = April 1 through June 30

3rd Quarter (Q3) = July 1 through September 30

4th Quarter (Q4) = October 1 through December 31

(Q1 during leap years and Q2 are each exactly 13 weeks long. Q3 and Q4 are each one day longer than 13 weeks, and Q1 during regular years is one day shorter than 13 weeks.)

You would have to pay back over-payments or benefits received that you were not eligible for.

If you have worked in the past year and a half, you probably qualify for benefits.

The fact that you received severance pay, in itself, does not make you eligible for unemployment benefits. There are many reasons a person receives severance, including voluntarily leaving a job, so that is not a determinant.

Yes you can collect unemployment if u get laid off the postal.

Sorry to say, but in Minnesota as a school bus driver you can not claim unemployment like every other seasonal job. School bus drivers are lumped in with teachers even though most of the time they aren't given the option to spread their pay over 12 months. This means that many have zero income for a few months a year.

You cannot get unemployment if you are working. You must be actively seeking work.

This is always possible, but it depends on how "liberal" your state is on reasons for discharge, etc. Contact your state's employment security office for clarification.

Yes, you can. Under certain circumstances the state will allow you to refuse certain work. See the Related Link below, under the item "What kind of work do I have to look for?"

No, because unemployment benefits are not considered earning for any government program. Be cause they are different, you can receive both at the same time without either being affected (accept a few states offset unemplyment by a percant of the SS benefit). See the related Question below, also.

Yes, you can apply and draw SS after applying for unemployment or vice versa as long as you qualify for each of them by their own criteria. As they are 2 different programs, they do not interfere with each other.

Because Kentucky looks at the base year (the first 4 of the last 5 completed calendar quarters) for qualifying, if your long term disability were before that you might not be eligible. Check with the state's employment security office.