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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 You need an employment offer that was then rescinded to prove this.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 #340 on: April 29, 2020, 08:49:50 PM »
Does this work for you?
Chinese to me but thanks anyway.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #341 on: April 29, 2020, 09:07:42 PM »
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If we originally asked for our benefits to be given by debit card and now we changed our mind and would like to receive the benefits with direct deposit, what is an efficient way to change that?
On the website we can only find a form to fill out and mail back. That seems like making an already complicated situation even more complicated.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #342 on: April 29, 2020, 09:15:28 PM »
NJ
If we originally asked for our benefits to be given by debit card and now we changed our mind and would like to receive the benefits with direct deposit, what is an efficient way to change that?
On the website we can only find a form to fill out and mail back. That seems like making an already complicated situation even more complicated.
When you login, there's a tab to update DD info.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #343 on: April 29, 2020, 09:44:58 PM »
When you login, there's a tab to update DD info.
That's where I was.
I only see an option to print and mail a form not to just change the info on the website.
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #344 on: April 29, 2020, 10:08:48 PM »
Great news!
Just found out that the DOL fine-tuned the definition (again) for the $600.
Here it is: The federal supplement would not affect eligibility for other benefits like Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, and housing assistance.
I know a few who were rejected by SNAP because UI income was too high, if that happens you'll need to file for a conference/hearing to explain why you are eligible.
Here is the official source if they ask for it: https://waysandmeans.house.gov/sites/democrats.waysandmeans.house.gov/files/documents/UC%20FAQ.pdf
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #345 on: April 29, 2020, 10:11:24 PM »
Taxed same as regular UI. Fed and State I come tax. No FICA as it's unearned income.
Assuming that till end of year the dems will make sure to remove it from personal income

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #346 on: April 29, 2020, 11:46:02 PM »
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Your claim is now eligible for payment of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA).

You are also eligible for an additional $600 per week through Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC).

On Friday, May 1, the first day to certify for your benefits, please carefully follow the instructions below. There are multiple steps you will need to complete in one sitting. One set of questions will ask about your coronavirus-related need for unemployment assistance. A second set of questions certifies your weekly employment situation.

Answering these weekly certification questions differently than described in the

instructions will delay payment.
Review the
coronavirus-specific instructions on how to answer the questions to certify for your benefits. Print out these instructions or keep the webpage open as you certify.
Locate
the exact time on Friday, May 1 that you are permitted to access the certifying system.
Login
 at your specific time on Friday, May 1. The process must be completed all at once.
Answer the questions on the PUA Self-Certification Page about your coronavirus-related situation.
Review the
instructions for certification for benefits. Again, print out these instructions or keep the webpage open as you certify.


Answer the certifying questions. Submit.
If the "Claim Additional Week" button appears in the center-bottom of screen, click the button and complete a certification for each week available on your claim. There may be multiple weeks available to you, which would allow you to receive multiple weeks of benefits.
Continue to click on "Claim Additional Week" until that button no longer appears after answering the certifying questions.
If you certify for

benefits on May 1, you will receive payment on Tuesday, May 5 and, on the same day, receive the Pandemic Unemployment Compensation of $600 per week for each week you certified.
If you miss your scheduled certification time window on May 1, you will be able to certify on Saturday, May 2, in the time slot specified for your Social Security number. Please note that if you certify Saturday, May 2, you will not receive the Pandemic Unemployment Compensation of $600 per week for each week you certified

until May 12.
Three tips to ensure timely payment: 

Certify this Friday. 
Answer the questions according to the instructions. 
Certify for each week available to your claim.
Thank you for your patience as we expand unemployment insurance eligibility to meet your needs.

Division of Unemployment Insurance

New Jersey Department of Labor

 

Helpful links:

How to understand and answer weekly certification questions: https://myunemployment.nj.gov/labor/myunemployment/covidinstructions.shtml
Locating your time each week to log-in and certify for benefits: 

https://myunemployment.nj.gov/labor/myunemployment/schedule.shtml
Frequently Asked Questions: 

https://www.nj.gov/labor/worker-protections/earnedsick/covidFAQ.shtml
 

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #347 on: April 30, 2020, 10:04:35 AM »
How Long after sending NY DOL a message should i get a response?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #348 on: April 30, 2020, 10:24:45 AM »
Mordyk -
You received that message as an email or you logged in to the site to find it?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #349 on: April 30, 2020, 10:51:09 AM »
How Long after sending NY DOL a message should i get a response?
Don't expect a response. The best you can hope for after 2-3 weeks is that they do whatever you asked them to.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #350 on: April 30, 2020, 11:07:05 AM »
Mordyk -
You received that message as an email or you logged in to the site to find it?
email
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #351 on: April 30, 2020, 11:21:42 AM »
Hypothetical question
Was employed in NYS for $400 a week, was fired from job filed UI. a week later find new job working 3 days paying $500 a week, em I eligible for partial UI+PUA?  ;D

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #352 on: April 30, 2020, 11:25:52 AM »
Hypothetical question
Was employed in NYS for $400 a week, was fired from job filed UI. a week later find new job working 3 days paying $500 a week, em I eligible for partial UI+PUA?  ;D
Was the original job FT? or also 3 days?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #353 on: April 30, 2020, 11:29:41 AM »
Was the original job FT? or also 3 days?
FT

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« Reply #354 on: April 30, 2020, 11:35:13 AM »
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Not giving you legal advice here, just my opinion, but technically you were never supposed to go off unemployment. Don't see why you shouldn't be able to file again. Your claim is probably still open. Just go in and start re-certifying.
You might even be able to retroactively file claims for those weeks you were PT and didn't know you were eligible to file.
https://www.labor.ny.gov/ui/claimantinfo/beforeyouapplyfaq.shtm#8

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #355 on: April 30, 2020, 12:08:00 PM »
Not giving you legal advice here, just my opinion, but technically you were never supposed to go off unemployment. Don't see why you shouldn't be able to file again. Your claim is probably still open. Just go in and start re-certifying.
You might even be able to retroactively file claims for those weeks you were PT and didn't know you were eligible to file.
https://www.labor.ny.gov/ui/claimantinfo/beforeyouapplyfaq.shtm#8
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #356 on: April 30, 2020, 01:08:11 PM »

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« Reply #357 on: April 30, 2020, 06:45:39 PM »
I opened a Twitter account for updates on unemployment and the CARES Act

Tips, Tricks, and Updates Related to NY Unemployment and the CARES Act
https://twitter.com/ChaiCovid

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« Reply #358 on: April 30, 2020, 09:17:14 PM »
I opened a Twitter account for updates on unemployment and the CARES Act

Tips, Tricks, and Updates Related to NY Unemployment and the CARES Act
https://twitter.com/ChaiCovid
Just to clarify - only NY not NJ?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #359 on: April 30, 2020, 09:19:08 PM »
For the weeks that included pesach, when certifying I wrote that there were 2 days that I was not "ready, willing, or able to work". They sent me a letter that they will deduct from my benefits. Anyone know if there's a way to get them not to deduct due to religious reasons or something?
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