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You are eligible for the $600 weekly FPUC payment if you are on any sort of unemployment, including PUA and partial unemployment. This is available for claims dated 3/28/20-7/31/20. The federal supplement does not affect eligibility for Medicaid and CHIP. It does affect SNAP and TANF.

If you filed for UI more than a week after your layoff date, you are eligible for backpay.

The obligatory waiting week has been waived, so your claim will process with a date a week earlier than what you apply for, to account for the waiting week waiver.

NY
There is a streamlined application process so that all applicants complete the same form, regardless of which program they'll eventually be eligible for.
PUA:
Unemployment for the self-employed. Acceptable proof of income includes prior year tax returns, 1099, P&L, bank statements and more. You will most likely be approved for standard UI even if you're an independent contractor, if you had W2 employment within the last 18 months.
If you are assigned the minimum rate of $182 when it should be higher based on your income, complete this form, fax it in, then send it again via the message center (Subject1: "Benefit Rate and Monetary Determination" Subject2: "Some of my wages are missing or incorrect") so that they definitely got it. Your rate should be adjusted in less than a week. You are also entitled to get your updated rate on all prior weeks.
You are also eligible for PUA if you landed a job but where unable to start due to the pandemic. You need an employment offer that was then rescinded to prove this.
PUA is available for a total of 46 weeks from 02/02/20-12/31/20.
Partial UI:
You can apply for partial UI if you're working 3 days or less, and earning $504/weekly or less. The DOL deducts 25% of your base rate for every day that you work. (You receive 100% of your rate if you don't work at all, 75% if you work 1 day, 50% if you work 2 days, and 25% if you work 3 days).
PEUC:
For those on regular unemployment- you will receive an additional 13 weeks of benefits after you've exhausted your initial 26 weeks. This benefit is available through 12/31/20.
Extended Benefits:
For those on regular unemployment- you will receive an additional 20 weeks of benefits after you've exhausted your initial 26 weeks and your PEUC weeks. This makes for a total of 59 weeks that you can possible receive unemployment benefits. This benefit is available as long as the state's unemployment rate is high.
Requesting Backpay:
The NY DOL is using Docusign to allow claimants to file backpay. You should receive an email from the DOL with instructions. The email subject is "Action Required - NYS DOL Certification for Back Week Payments". This might end up in your spam folder, so be sure to check that as well.
If you don't receive this email or you don't want to wait, call the NY DOL and speak to an agent to certify for backpay over the phone.
It takes a little less than a week from when you complete backdated certifications until your claims are processed and funds are released.
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NJ
Apply here.
PUA:
Unemployment for the self-employed. Acceptable proof of income includes prior year tax returns, 1099, P&L, bank statements and more. You will most likely be approved for standard UI even if you're an independent contractor, if you had W2 employment within the last 18 months.
At this point it looks like claimants are still being given $231- the minimum PUA rate- regardless of prior income.
You are also eligible for PUA if you landed a job but where unable to start due to the pandemic. You need an employment offer that was then rescinded to prove this.
PUA is available for a total of 46 weeks from 02/02/20-12/31/20.
Partial UI:
You can apply for partial UI if your hours have been reduced by 20% or more. You'll be allowed to earn an additional 20% above your rate determination. Your earnings will then be deducted from your rate, and you'll receive the balance as your UI payment.
PEUC:
For those on regular unemployment- you will receive an additional 13 weeks of benefits after you've exhausted your initial 26 weeks. This benefit is available through 12/31/20.
Extended Benefits:
For those on regular unemployment- you will receive an additional 20 weeks of benefits after you've exhausted your initial 26 weeks and your PEUC weeks. This makes for a total of 59 weeks that you can possible receive unemployment benefits. This benefit is available as long as the state's unemployment rate is high.
Requesting Backpay:
You can request backpay if you are lucky enough to get through to an agent.

Here is a guide for NJ residents from the LRRC.
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1760 on: June 13, 2020, 10:36:06 PM »
Transitionning from Unemployment to PUA in NJ:
Just wanted to update anyone that may have similar circumstances:
I was on reg unemployment for a few months due to place of employment shutting because of COVID. they reopened at the end of May and requested I return. I was unable to give my full hours as I need to tend to my children that are out of Child care bec of COVID.
In the week that I returned partially I filled out on the weekly certification by "did you refuse any work" Yes and explained. The claim went to pending I had telephone intervoew this mornning , explained the situation and the worker said i am eligible and will receive PUA. for that week...
In this circumstance you just answer No, and you will receive benefits w/o the hassle. The rules explicitly state "if you refused any work.... because you wouldn't be able to.... care for a dependent who's place of care or school is closed because of coronavirus, you should answer NO."

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1761 on: June 13, 2020, 10:53:37 PM »
In this circumstance you just answer No, and you will receive benefits w/o the hassle. The rules explicitly state "if you refused any work.... because you wouldn't be able to.... care for a dependent who's place of care or school is closed because of coronavirus, you should answer NO."

That's for question 3. How do you answer "yes" to question 1?
https://myunemployment.nj.gov/about/howtoapply/covidinstructions.shtml

Now there's the additional issue that businesses who receive PPP must report to the DOL any employees who refuse to return to work. You want to have all your bases covered if the DOL opens a case against you.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1762 on: June 13, 2020, 11:13:44 PM »
That's for question 3. How do you answer "yes" to question 1?
https://myunemployment.nj.gov/about/howtoapply/covidinstructions.shtml

Now there's the additional issue that businesses who receive PPP must report to the DOL any employees who refuse to return to work. You want to have all your bases covered if the DOL opens a case against you.
I would think you can answer Yes for question 1 as well. As per the rules it states that you answer yes if any 1 of 3 conditions are true, with the first option being you were able to work and lost your job due to.... your employment changed due to coronavirus. That is the situation. Now something new happened (I.e. the business reopened). But that really is included in the next questions.
Question 2 I don't know about, though.
But it doesn't make sense, that you should be answering no to question 2 (and thereby not be eligible) and are told to answer no to question 3.  If they are clearly allowing childcare as an excuse in question 3, that means they are saying you are eligible in this circumstance. How can they tell you to answer No to #3 when they want you to answer No to question 2, and thereby become ineligible.

ETA the rules for #2 state that you can answer Yes if you are waiting for the natural emergency to end to go back to work, so it would seem to me that you can answer all the questions properly and be eligible in a situation like this.
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1763 on: June 14, 2020, 12:18:15 AM »
I applied for unemployment (NJ) late and I got a job here is the timeline

March 11th Lost Job
April 25 applied to unemployment
May 22 New Job Hire
June 10th Accepted for unemployment (Date of eligible was may 29th)

A few questions

Am I eligible for back unemployment even though I have a Job now?
If yes can I claim from when I lost my Job?
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1764 on: June 14, 2020, 12:32:28 AM »
I applied for unemployment (NJ) late and I got a job here is the timeline

March 11th Lost Job
April 25 applied to unemployment
May 22 New Job Hire
June 10th Accepted for unemployment (Date of eligible was apr 29th)

A few questions

Am I eligible for back unemployment even though I have a Job now?
If yes can I claim from when I lost my Job?


yes, you can still claim for the weeks you were unemployed. Just certify for all the weeks you were unemployed and stop certifying when you reach the week that you started working. As far as backpay from march 11 - april 29, nobody in NJ has gotten any backpay yet, but I assume you will get it the same way everyone else does when it comes

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1765 on: June 14, 2020, 01:46:35 AM »

yes, you can still claim for the weeks you were unemployed. Just certify for all the weeks you were unemployed and stop certifying when you reach the week that you started working. As far as backpay from march 11 - april 29, nobody in NJ has gotten any backpay yet, but I assume you will get it the same way everyone else does when it comes

Thats the thing I got my job before I was approved so technically everything I am owed was back unemployment--- So I can't certify now I am working

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1766 on: June 14, 2020, 08:56:29 AM »
Thats the thing I got my job before I was approved so technically everything I am owed was back unemployment--- So I can't certify now I am working

yes you can certify. it will ask you about each individual week, one at a time. if you didn't work that week, say you didn't work

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1767 on: June 14, 2020, 01:25:37 PM »
yes you can certify. it will ask you about each individual week, one at a time. if you didn't work that week, say you didn't work

so when i certify for the first time (Tuesday) I will be able to change the date back to when I originally lost my job?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1768 on: June 14, 2020, 08:33:59 PM »

Now there's the additional issue that businesses who receive PPP must report to the DOL any employees who refuse to return to work. You want to have all your bases covered if the DOL opens a case against you.
assuming you need to care for your children (even if your employer is offering daycare that won't help for the school age children) what should be the problem?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1769 on: June 14, 2020, 08:37:20 PM »
so when i certify for the first time (Tuesday) I will be able to change the date back to when I originally lost my job?

no but you will be able to certify from april 19 - may 22
(all applications during any week are dated the sunday of that week. so if you applied on motzei shabbos april 25, your application was dated april 19. If you applied april 26 then you will get april 26-may22)
you will have to wait to get the pay from before april 19

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1770 on: June 14, 2020, 08:41:07 PM »
assuming you need to care for your children (even if your employer is offering daycare that won't help for the school age children) what should be the problem?

1) if the state isn't clear that you can certify as ready, willing, and able to work when caring for kids at home you might need a) a waiver or b) a PUA transfer not to get kicked off when your employer informs the DOL

2) the caring for kids at home excuse is only valid for when school is in session. It is not valid during summer break unless daycamps can't operate (I think they can operate in almost all states) and it's not valid for the week or two between when school normally ends and daycamp starts. I'm not sure how this applies to sleepaway camp.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1771 on: June 14, 2020, 08:50:03 PM »
I'm not sure how this applies to sleepaway camp.

Looks like lack of sleepaway camp where the closure is ordered by the state is a covered reason to collect PUA. I'm not sure how this applies to children crossing state lines for summer care arrangements.

https://www.dol.gov/coronavirus/unemployment-insurance
That means that, once the school year is over, parents should rely on their customary summer arrangements for caring for their children, and will not, absent some other qualifying circumstances, be eligible to receive PUA. If, however, the facility that they rely on to provide summer care for the child is also closed as a direct result of the COVID-19 public health emergency, they may continue to qualify for PUA. Similarly, if there is some other reason under which they qualify for PUA, they will continue to be eligible to receive benefits.
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1772 on: June 14, 2020, 08:53:02 PM »
NJ banned sleepaway camps before NY did

And I wonder how this affects children who can "technically" watch themselves all day.
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« Reply #1773 on: June 14, 2020, 08:54:53 PM »
NJ banned sleepaway camps before NY did


My mistake. I thought NY was the outlier in the region. I'll modify the post to prevent confusion.

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« Reply #1774 on: June 14, 2020, 08:56:18 PM »
My mistake. I thought NY was the outlier in the region. I'll modify the post to prevent confusion.
Well I don't know of any frum sleepaway camps in NJ so it doesn't make much difference, most people go to NY anyways. It didn't get a lot of DDF "news coverage" :)
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« Reply #1775 on: June 14, 2020, 08:58:33 PM »
Well I don't know of any frum sleepaway camps in NJ so it doesn't make much difference, most people go to NY anyways. It didn't get a lot of DDF "news coverage" :)

I was going to ask who operates a sleepaway camp on a flat plain that's hot and humid...

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« Reply #1776 on: June 14, 2020, 08:59:39 PM »
I was going to ask who operates a sleepaway camp on a flat plain that's hot and humid...
As per google it turns out there are a few!
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1777 on: June 14, 2020, 10:08:41 PM »
Well I don't know of any frum sleepaway camps in NJ so it doesn't make much difference, most people go to NY anyways. It didn't get a lot of DDF "news coverage" :)

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1778 on: June 14, 2020, 11:52:55 PM »
When I originally filed for unemployment I was under the impression that I needed 20 weeks of work in order to qualify even for PUA. So I originally wrote in my application that my final day of work was April 26th which would be 20 weeks from when I started working. In actuality my workload had been significantly reduced by the end of March.

Now if I understand correctly there is no 20 week requirement for PUA and the $231 I received as my weekly benefit rate is just the minimum rate for PUA.

My question is, is there a way for me to now go back and get benefits for those weeks between when actually stopped working(end of March) and the date I put on my application(April 26th)?

I have already been receiving benefits weekly since April 26th.

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« Reply #1779 on: June 15, 2020, 12:00:38 AM »

My question is, is there a way for me to now go back and get benefits for those weeks between when actually stopped working(end of March) and the date I put on my application(April 26th)?

I have already been receiving benefits weekly since April 26th.

They should be able to revise your Benefit Year Start date and then once they figure out a retroactive payment system you should be able to get those payments as well.
Only way to correct the date is via a phone call.