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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 You need an employment offer that was then rescinded to prove this.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.
$0 Benefit Determination:
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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 #1400 on: May 27, 2020, 03:42:47 PM »
He can submit a reconsideration request, but they might choose to look at his W2 income only and leave him on regular UI instead of PUA.
NYC Section 8 Income limits: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nycha/section-8/applicants.page no mention of earned vs unearned income so not sure how it will affect.

Was i wrong in mentioning his wages on the application? He wasn't employed at this job when he got unemployed, at that point he was only self employed.

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« Reply #1401 on: May 27, 2020, 03:47:17 PM »
Was i wrong in mentioning his wages on the application? He wasn't employed at this job when he got unemployed, at that point he was only self employed.

Not at all. They ask for all employment of the last 18 months.
In fact when someone is laid off, all employers of the last 18 months contribute even if they weren't the last one.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1402 on: May 27, 2020, 03:48:22 PM »
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Any way to claim/expedite backpay these days? Or need to wait for DOL to correct?

You can try backcert@labor.ny.gov but I wouldn't hold my breathe.
If it does work let me know.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1403 on: May 27, 2020, 03:49:46 PM »
Not at all. They ask for all employment of the last 18 months.
In fact when someone is laid off, all employers of the last 18 months contribute even if they weren't the last one.

That's very interesting. What if someone quit his job, thus not eligible for UI, later got another job and was fired. Why would the 1st ER have to contribute?
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« Reply #1404 on: May 27, 2020, 04:09:39 PM »
That's very interesting. What if someone quit his job, thus not eligible for UI, later got another job and was fired. Why would the 1st ER have to contribute?

Sorry I wasn't clear. All employers of the last 18 months who fired or laid off the employee.
NY still hasn't announced if they'll be billing employers for Covid layoffs or not...

Here it is:
https://labor.ny.gov/formsdocs/ui/P820.pdf

Unemployment Insurance benefits could potentially be charged to all employers for whom a claimant worked in their base period. The base period is either the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters prior to the quarter in which the claim is filed or last four completed calendar quarters prior to the quarter in which the claim is filed.
First, we charge benefits to the account of the last employer for whom the claimant worked before they filed the Unemployment Insurance claim. The last employer is charged for seven weeks of benefits (or the equivalent monetary amount). Next, we charge benefits to all base period employers in proportion to how much of the claimant’s total base period wages were paid by each employer.
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Any base period employer may contest these charges if the claimant was discharged due to misconduct or voluntarily quit without good cause.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1405 on: May 27, 2020, 04:11:22 PM »
Any base period employer may contest these charges if the claimant was discharged due to misconduct or voluntarily quit without good cause.

Actually after reading it again I'm not so sure...
Looks like you can only contest if "discharged due to misconduct or voluntarily quit without good cause." so if an employee quit with good cause last year in February, you'd still have to pay for him...

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1406 on: May 27, 2020, 04:13:12 PM »
You can try backcert@labor.ny.gov but I wouldn't hold my breathe.
If it does work let me know.
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1407 on: May 27, 2020, 04:16:49 PM »
anyone have experience with money that was released and isn't in account?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1408 on: May 27, 2020, 04:20:25 PM »
anyone have experience with money that was released and isn't in account?

Location?
What's the release date?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1409 on: May 27, 2020, 04:20:53 PM »
anyone have experience with money that was released and isn't in account?


1. how long has it been?
2. Has DOL deposited successfully to the account in the past?
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1410 on: May 27, 2020, 04:22:41 PM »
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first deposit
release date 05/21

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1411 on: May 27, 2020, 04:24:40 PM »
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first deposit
release date 05/21

Is it for the $0 week? or for an actual certification that has a claim attached to it with a dollar value?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1412 on: May 27, 2020, 04:26:27 PM »
see attached
did't get anything

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« Reply #1413 on: May 27, 2020, 04:32:27 PM »
see attached
did't get anything

Oysh. Did you check with your bank?
Also double check the DD info on your DOL account to make sure it's correct.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1414 on: May 27, 2020, 04:45:41 PM »
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Friend of mine has same issue, shows all funds released from 3/15 and on but only received some fpuc payments ( received all pua, and has DD showing for all)
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1415 on: May 27, 2020, 04:48:26 PM »
I dont think you can see the dd info previously entered, you can only enter new information. So I wouldn't know if it was incorrect.
Ill try talking to bank first.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1416 on: May 27, 2020, 07:32:50 PM »
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Wife was working 20 percent of hours, getting UI and PUA steadily for weeks. Now, boss raised hours to 75 percent (of normal). Certified for NJ with new info, and it went through, though benefit amount has been reduced to $0. Can I still expect the PUA to come through on the regular schedule?

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« Reply #1417 on: May 27, 2020, 07:56:58 PM »
NJ

Wife was working 20 percent of hours, getting UI and PUA steadily for weeks. Now, boss raised hours to 75 percent (of normal). Certified for NJ with new info, and it went through, though benefit amount has been reduced to $0. Can I still expect the PUA to come through on the regular schedule?
She was getting UI and FPUC.
FPUC only comes through with a payment of at least $1 in UI.

She should be able to certify partially and get a payment if her hours are only up to 75% (80% is the max) and her wages are less than her benefit rate +20%.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #1418 on: May 27, 2020, 08:50:23 PM »
DW worked in NJ at her job a few hours two weeks ago and last week worked nothing. On monday at recertification it said she has to refile a new claim. She did and still has not received any confirmation. Are we going to have problems with this?

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« Reply #1419 on: May 27, 2020, 08:59:07 PM »
DW worked in NJ at her job a few hours two weeks ago and last week worked nothing. On monday at recertification it said she has to refile a new claim. She did and still has not received any confirmation. Are we going to have problems with this?

When you say "refile a new claim" do you mean a new application or a new certification?

If a new application, did she file that now for the pandemic? Or was she certifying off an existing application that she filed for last year?