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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 You need an employment offer that was then rescinded to prove this.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 #860 on: May 14, 2020, 07:35:10 PM »
In the end o got 2 letters showing I can collect one claim was for 3/16 filed on 3/21 and one was for 3/16 claim filed on 5/1
What do I do

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #861 on: May 14, 2020, 07:45:23 PM »
In NJ, what does the email from e-Adjudication look like?

DW filed 5/4, and it went to WBR of $0 on 5/11, and have heard nothing from Labor at all. I am ok with waiting, but what is the process like at this point, can someone who had this chime in please?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #862 on: May 14, 2020, 07:52:05 PM »
In the end o got 2 letters showing I can collect one claim was for 3/16 filed on 3/21 and one was for 3/16 claim filed on 5/1
What do I do
Wonder how they made that mistake... if the 3/16 let's you claim all the retroactive weeks you'll get your cash faster that way.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #863 on: May 14, 2020, 08:01:41 PM »
In NJ, what does the email from e-Adjudication look like?

DW filed 5/4, and it went to WBR of $0 on 5/11, and have heard nothing from Labor at all. I am ok with waiting, but what is the process like at this point, can someone who had this chime in please?
Subject was "New Jersey Unemployment - Unresolved Issues On Your Claim" for both emails that I received.
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #864 on: May 14, 2020, 08:08:36 PM »
In NJ, what does the email from e-Adjudication look like?

DW filed 5/4, and it went to WBR of $0 on 5/11, and have heard nothing from Labor at all. I am ok with waiting, but what is the process like at this point, can someone who had this chime in please?
It comes the day after the claim is filed IME
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #865 on: May 14, 2020, 08:25:36 PM »
In NJ, what does the email from e-Adjudication look like?

DW filed 5/4, and it went to WBR of $0 on 5/11, and have heard nothing from Labor at all. I am ok with waiting, but what is the process like at this point, can someone who had this chime in please?
IME, I never got an e-adjudication email.
After waiting for weeks we got an email that the claim is now payable with a link to a form.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #866 on: May 14, 2020, 08:53:36 PM »
A college professor who had been teaching Spring Semester classes was assigned to teach Sumner classes but they were cancelled due to the virus. When does she apply? When Spring 2020 ends (and she is now unemployed) or when the Summer semester would have started...?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #867 on: May 14, 2020, 09:25:58 PM »
Is there a dedicated thread discussing

Families First Coronavirus Response Act: Employer Paid Leave Requirements

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/pandemic/ffcra-employer-paid-leave

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #868 on: May 14, 2020, 09:32:35 PM »
A college professor who had been teaching Spring Semester classes was assigned to teach Sumner classes but they were cancelled due to the virus. When does she apply? When Spring 2020 ends (and she is now unemployed) or when the Summer semester would have started...?

Does she usually get paid for the break?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #869 on: May 14, 2020, 09:43:09 PM »
Assuming NY
If you worked FT til mid-March you should qualify:

Definitely mid-March until late April. When you file a claim be sure to enter that date in mid-March as your last day worked so that you can file retroactively for all weeks. They'll contact you after your claim is filed for retroactive claims.

For partial work from late April you will only qualify for the weeks where you earned less than $504 and worked 3 days or less. For every day you work your benefit rate gets cut by 25%, but the $600 supplemental remains a flat rate.
If you're eligible for some weeks only based on the above, certify a) either for those weeks only or b) for all weeks and they'll compute when you are eligible and when you're not.
Any weeks that you certify and are ineligible your Benefit Days Available won't be decreased. (Or if you're eligible for 1,2, or 3 days only you'll only receive a partial deduction instead of the usual 4 days). This means you'll be able to be on UI longer as your days and total amount available will be deducted over a longer period of time. If they extend the $600 FPUC past 7/31 you'll be a real winner (assuming you're still able to claim partial unemployment then.)

Follow up question to my post above:
In NY if you file a partial unemployment certification, and your benefit days and benefit amount is only deducted based on how much you claimed for that week so if someone files a claim steadily where they worked 2 days a week, then only 2 days and 50% of their benefit rate is deducted from their balance, and they can stay on UI for 52 weeks instead of the usual 26.

PEUC is billed as a 13 week extension to those exhausted their regular benefits.
PUA is billed as unemployment for those who usually don't qualify with a maximum of 39 weeks.

Now for the question:
Does someone on partial unemployment at 50% as used in the example above qualify for 26 weeks of the extension? And for more than 39 weeks of PUA (PUA only runs from 2/2-12/26 so I won't assume they can stay on for double time)

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #870 on: May 14, 2020, 09:47:22 PM »
Anyone miss the e-adjudication form and can’t access and now is in limbo? Can’t get a hold of anyone and form expired what do I do?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #871 on: May 14, 2020, 09:47:38 PM »
Anyone miss the e-adjudication form and can’t access and now is in limbo? Can’t get a hold of anyone and form expired what do I do?
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #872 on: May 14, 2020, 10:00:46 PM »
It comes the day after the claim is filed IME
I'm curious to what your DP are, me and a lot of other people I know haven't heard anything back yet. It's been weeks.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #873 on: May 14, 2020, 10:04:41 PM »
Does she usually get paid for the break?
No.

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« Reply #875 on: May 14, 2020, 10:24:13 PM »

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« Reply #876 on: May 14, 2020, 10:26:38 PM »
Thanks so much!

You're welcome. Read the link though. It has some nuances.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #877 on: May 14, 2020, 10:58:00 PM »
I'm curious to what your DP are, me and a lot of other people I know haven't heard anything back yet. It's been weeks.
IME = in my experience, so thats his DP.

I had same thing fyi.
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #878 on: May 14, 2020, 11:24:20 PM »
IME = in my experience, so thats his DP.

I had same thing fyi.
The way he wrote the sentence "It comes the day after the claim is filed IME" implies that in general it happens that way.

But you're right, He did right IME.
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« Reply #879 on: May 14, 2020, 11:24:31 PM »