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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 You need an employment offer that was then rescinded to prove this.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 #1280 on: May 24, 2020, 08:39:55 AM »
It’s another amount plus 600. You should see both amounts come in at the same time in your bank account though not mentioned when you certify,

I only got the other amount....not the 600$

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1281 on: May 24, 2020, 09:21:44 AM »
Did anyone have success claiming backpay in NJ? If yes, how?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1282 on: May 24, 2020, 09:30:41 AM »
I claimed backpay in NJ and got it

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1283 on: May 24, 2020, 10:19:04 AM »
I claimed backpay in NJ and got it
Backpay from the day you filed or date of unemployment?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1284 on: May 24, 2020, 10:21:17 AM »
Does anyone know if I'm eligible for unemployment if summer job gets cancelled?
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1285 on: May 24, 2020, 11:12:58 AM »
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Friend was approved for pua 2 weeks ago and hasn't received a dime yet. to be expected? Anything he can do?
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1286 on: May 24, 2020, 11:15:12 AM »
Does anyone know if I'm eligible for unemployment if summer job gets cancelled?


Not sure if anyone has addressed my question before. If someone works in a school so is employed 10 months a year and then usually has a summer job (let's say they work in a camp but every year is different). Can they apply for PUA if the summer job doesn't work out this year?
Thanks
You can if you have a written offer of employment and it falls through.
If you can't find one because of the pandemic, then you're out of luck.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1287 on: May 24, 2020, 11:27:18 AM »
Backpay from the day you filed or date of unemployment?
From filing date. They claim eventually we'll get from unemployment date.
Keep in mind, only the PUA is supposed to be retroactive to date of unemployment not the FPUC ($600).

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1288 on: May 24, 2020, 11:29:11 AM »
It’s another amount plus 600. You should see both amounts come in at the same time in your bank account though not mentioned when you certify,
Not necessarily.
It took us 10 days after getting our first PUA ($231) to get our first FPUC ($600)

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1289 on: May 24, 2020, 11:38:09 AM »
From filing date. They claim eventually we'll get from unemployment date.
Keep in mind, only the PUA is supposed to be retroactive to date of unemployment not the FPUC ($600).
fpuc is only retroactive to filing date?
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1290 on: May 24, 2020, 11:40:43 AM »
fpuc is only retroactive to filing date?
FPUC is retroactive to the week ending 4/4
PUA is retroactive to the date of unemployment, which for many people was 3/18. Although there are no reports of anyone getting it from before April.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1291 on: May 24, 2020, 11:41:56 AM »
FPUC is retroactive to the week ending 4/4
PUA is retroactive to the date of unemployment, which for many people was 3/18. Although there are no reports of anyone getting it from before April.
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1292 on: May 24, 2020, 11:45:55 AM »
https://otda.ny.gov/policy/gis/2020/20DC035.pdf

any portion of the UIB received as a retroactive lump sum payment should be excluded as income for SNAP eligibility purposes. The amount received as a lump sum payment would count as a resource in the month received.

So basically it's economical to file for UI the week before you get your job back, and then certify for weeks/months of backpay...

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1293 on: May 24, 2020, 12:46:37 PM »
any portion of the UIB received as a retroactive lump sum payment should be excluded as income for SNAP eligibility purposes. The amount received as a lump sum payment would count as a resource in the month received.

So basically it's economical to file for UI the week before you get your job back, and then certify for weeks/months of backpay...

Assuming you get to choose when they pay you the lump sum, some people don’t and come here to whine lol
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1294 on: May 24, 2020, 01:33:41 PM »
Is there any solution for certifying in NJ this week for those whose socials are scheduled for Friday (Shavous)? Or do we have to just wait till next week and do for both weeks?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1295 on: May 24, 2020, 02:14:18 PM »
Is there any solution for certifying in NJ this week for those whose socials are scheduled for Friday (Shavous)? Or do we have to just wait till next week and do for both weeks?

+1.
My day is Friday too. I figured I'll just wait and certify both next week.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1298 on: May 24, 2020, 03:16:20 PM »
Per the new PPP rules, employers are required to report any employees rejecting employment offers to the DOL.

If you need to stay on unemployment due to caring for kids at home, you MUST talk to your local DOL to get transferred to PUA for the "caring for kids at home" exemption. Otherwise the DOL will throw you off UI for not accepting employment.

If you talk to your local DOL and they advise you of an automated way to get this transfer from standard UI to PUA done via your account, kindly let us know as it will help scores of others.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1299 on: May 24, 2020, 05:11:05 PM »
Per the new PPP rules, employers are required to report any employees rejecting employment offers to the DOL.

If you need to stay on unemployment due to caring for kids at home, you MUST talk to your local DOL to get transferred to PUA for the "caring for kids at home" exemption. Otherwise the DOL will throw you off UI for not accepting employment.

If you talk to your local DOL and they advise you of an automated way to get this transfer from standard UI to PUA done via your account, kindly let us know as it will help scores of others.

Better for employers who won’t have to pay UI. It means many W2 people on UI will end up costing the federal government $$ (not just FPUC but also PUA)
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