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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 You need an employment offer that was then rescinded to prove this.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 #2800 on: August 07, 2020, 06:19:02 PM »
Did anyone get a callback in NJ from 8668125907 ?
Real number or scam? The guy sounded straight out of India.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #2801 on: August 07, 2020, 07:04:47 PM »
Don't hold your breath, I know several ppl who were told that a lot more than 10 days ago
It's strange. In NY you can either speak to a rep and have them certify all back pay weeks or you can do it yourself online after certifying the first weeks benefits, but im helping someone from NJ who's is trying to receive his backpay and no option at all online and after calling and receiving callbacks 2 diff reps stated "we are escalating your claim and you should receive a response within a week or two" as if it's questionable whether or not he's elligible for backpay!! But NYs website clearly stated "don't worry if you're having a hard time filing, all claims will be backdated to the date of unemployment" so what's this business with NJ giving ppl issues with backdating their claim?!?
They made it sound as if he was now filing an additional claim to have his thing backdated when the initial application clearly had his date of unemployment listed as early April so if his claim was approved how can they not have to immediately give options to certify for all previous weeks??
Can anyone clarify what the steps were for them to certify for backpay weeks in NJ and whether or not they were successful, as he has already certified the last 3 weeks of benefits but no word yet on all the weeks from April to July 12th.
Any and all details are greatly appreciated!
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #2802 on: August 07, 2020, 07:28:32 PM »
I submitted a message, however I got an auto reply to check out the FAQ's. what subject and sub-subject should be selected to get a human to respond?
The subheading was "I want to request backdating of my claim."
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #2803 on: August 08, 2020, 10:01:30 PM »
The subheading was "I want to request backdating of my claim."
Which subject did you choose from the choices?
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #2804 on: August 08, 2020, 10:04:16 PM »
So $400 a week supplemental, or is this executive order not so simple?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #2805 on: August 08, 2020, 10:05:27 PM »
Its the reply that you sent them on their message. You could see it by sent messages. I have seen this a lot.
Looks like that's probably it. Still seems weird, though, most sent items don't show up there!
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #2806 on: August 08, 2020, 11:01:34 PM »
So $400 a week supplemental, or is this executive order not so simple?
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #2807 on: August 08, 2020, 11:12:15 PM »
Forcing states to pay $100 of the $400 is not good news (aside from obviously being completely non legally implementable). Having the funding coming from state as opposed to federal coffers can cause an audit avalanche. Whatever issues we're currently seeing in NJ can get a lot worse, and can spread to NY and other states. Scary stuff.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #2808 on: August 08, 2020, 11:15:16 PM »
@cgr is a tzaddik.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #2809 on: August 08, 2020, 11:18:46 PM »
Is the $400 retroactive?
And if yes, from when?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #2810 on: August 08, 2020, 11:19:50 PM »
Having the funding coming from state as opposed to federal coffers can cause an audit avalanche.
Why's that?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #2811 on: August 08, 2020, 11:23:15 PM »
@cgr is a tzaddik.

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« Reply #2812 on: August 08, 2020, 11:24:12 PM »
@cgr is a tzaddik.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #2813 on: August 08, 2020, 11:32:27 PM »
Did anyone get a callback in NJ from 8668125907 ?
Real number or scam? The guy sounded straight out of India.
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #2814 on: August 08, 2020, 11:32:34 PM »
Just a quick update- don't have time to post now but even beyond the legalities of it being an executive order, it doesn't sound too promising.
The Fed is only funding $300 and it's coming from an existing Disaster Relief Fund. The Order states that the funding is through December 6 or until the fund drops to 25 billion (currently has 70 billion)- whichever comes first. This means that there are 150MM $300 payments available. Now assuming that the latest jobs report is correct and 18MM are unemployed, that gives just 8 weeks of payments to those collecting UI- definitely not til December if numbers hold steady or rise.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #2815 on: August 08, 2020, 11:37:14 PM »
Bump
FWIW my friend in NY got a callback with Indian accent, was sure it was a scam, but turned out to be legit
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #2816 on: August 08, 2020, 11:47:01 PM »
Did anyone get a callback in NJ from 8668125907 ?
Real number or scam? The guy sounded straight out of India.
I couldn't get myself to give him my social, and couldn't locate my nj claim number.
I instead gave him a family member's claim number, and he right away told me, that that is not you, and identified the name of that person (different first name).
I still couldn't find my number after that,  so he hung up, but I wouldve felt very uncomfortable giving him my info.
If it was a scammer, would they have access to that?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #2817 on: August 08, 2020, 11:59:48 PM »
Did anyone get a callback in NJ from 8668125907 ?
Real number or scam? The guy sounded straight out of India.
take the caller ID with a grain of salt, I can call you with any number you want on your ID
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #2818 on: August 09, 2020, 12:18:47 AM »
@cgr is a tzaddik.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #2819 on: August 09, 2020, 12:18:55 AM »
I guess the question boils down to, those that have received callbacks in NJ, are they usually from the732 761 2020 number, or does a 866 number with an Indian accent make sense?
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