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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 You need an employment offer that was then rescinded to prove this.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 #3120 on: September 02, 2020, 11:42:48 PM »

   
  • is it possible to certify for more than the previous week on the phone line? I wasn’t able to

Not on the certification phone line but you can at 888-209-8124- this is the # to speak to a live agent.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #3121 on: September 03, 2020, 10:31:16 AM »
Any timeframe for ny lwa disbursement?
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #3122 on: September 03, 2020, 11:17:35 AM »

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #3123 on: September 03, 2020, 12:59:59 PM »
Is a full time student eligible for PUA in NJ?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #3124 on: September 03, 2020, 01:24:43 PM »
Is a full time student eligible for PUA in NJ?

Same as everywhere else - If he lost employment income he is eligible, if not, not.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #3125 on: September 03, 2020, 01:51:23 PM »
Same as everywhere else - If he lost employment income he is eligible, if not, not.
Thanks.
How about if he couldn't start a job, never worked before?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #3126 on: September 03, 2020, 02:08:35 PM »
Thanks.
How about if he couldn't start a job, never worked before?
If he got an offer letter with a start date that was rescinded due to Covid, then should be fine for PUA.

If he never got a job offer, then he's out of luck.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #3127 on: September 03, 2020, 08:38:31 PM »
Is there a minimum income necessary to qualify for unemployment? Someone i know is self employed makes 675 a month and they got a letter claiming that they dont make enough money...... I am told this is inaccurate! how can this be appealed?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #3128 on: September 03, 2020, 08:51:39 PM »
Is there a minimum income necessary to qualify for unemployment? Someone i know is self employed makes 675 a month and they got a letter claiming that they dont make enough money...... I am told this is inaccurate! how can this be appealed?
As long as PUA is in place there is no minimum.
If it's in NY chances are they already approved him for PUA by the time he got the letter. It's auto generated based on regular UI so it confuses people, but it doesn't mean anything.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #3129 on: September 04, 2020, 11:00:09 AM »
What are the chances pua will be extended?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #3130 on: September 04, 2020, 01:02:40 PM »
What are the chances pua will be extended?
To soon to tell but it has not been mentioned in any potential stimulus bill. It would be an emergency measure at best.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #3131 on: September 04, 2020, 06:27:32 PM »
Just got my back pay!!
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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #3132 on: September 04, 2020, 06:30:09 PM »
Just got my back pay!!
Thanks to all for your help, and special to @cgr
NY? NJ?
What was the process?

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« Reply #3133 on: September 04, 2020, 06:35:47 PM »

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #3135 on: September 05, 2020, 09:35:28 PM »
Any guidance for NJ?
Spoke to someone last week. They said they will let me know if approved or denied!? How can they deny backpay?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #3136 on: September 05, 2020, 10:27:44 PM »
Spoke to someone last week. They said they will let me know if approved or denied!? How can they deny backpay?

Nobody who answers the phone in the NJDOL has any idea what they are talking about.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #3137 on: September 05, 2020, 11:19:43 PM »
Nobody who answers the phone in the NJDOL has any idea what they are talking about.
Has anyone received backpay in NJ? Did they notify you or did it come up when you went in to certify?

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #3138 on: September 05, 2020, 11:20:25 PM »
I'm here to report back:

NJ,

Filed two appeals, May 15 and June 5.

Got a determination in the mail finally, I think from my first appeal.

Determination: I'm not eligible even though I lost self-employment income because my W2 income is more than the benefit rate. They didn't address what I raised in my second appeal that my benefit rate of $231 was set too low. I am now appealing this determination by mail, and enclosing the details of my past employment. Hopefully they'll adjust my WBR, and hopefully they'll do it quicker than my last appeal!
Reporting back again. (NJ)

I just got a letter from the appeal tribunal that they received my appeal and they will review it. They wrote the I should keep certifying, and that I should let them know of any address changes, as they don't get updated by the general system. They also left a fax number to let them know if I plan to have a lawyer represent me.

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Re: Unemployment Help
« Reply #3139 on: September 05, 2020, 11:38:03 PM »
Has anyone received backpay in NJ? Did they notify you or did it come up when you went in to certify?

I don't know of anyone who has received it.