Hi - this is my first post here.
My current position will be over soon (the contract has ended), I am W2’d and will file for unemployment.
My question is… after I’ve opened my claim, and have received several unemployment checks, if I do some contract work where I am 1099’d for a couple of months, am I able to then go back to my existing claim, or am I no longer eligible because my last “employment” was as a 1099/Contractor?
Thank you in advance for all your help
I think you’ll find your answers here.
They are reasonably responsive to email inquiries. I found that to be the best place to get answers to specfic questions as they came up. I didn’t have contract work, but I did have a period where I was working less than half time and sometimes earned more than my benefit would have been for that period.
You report that you made income and they adujust it accordingly. I have been on unemployment for a year but I’ve had a lot of part time jobs and they just reduce it or eliminate it for the weeks you earn more than you’re allowed to.
I was told if you don’t report it and they find out, they’ll throw you off for good.
Retired California EDD person here. The official answers are in Postcards’ link to the EDD site.
The Cliff Notes version is that once a claim is filed, it controls for a year. If you go back to work and subsequently become unemployed, you have to meet the current eligibility requirements (unemployed through no fault of your own, able to work, available for work and actively seeking work) and you continue being paid from the current claim. A basic unemployment claim lasts a year but only has six months of money at full weekly benefit. We have been in a long period of extensions, but most of those are set to end in December, I think.
If you get caught lying (it is called a False Statement), you aren’t thrown off for good, but it is very punitive. You have to serve a penalty of up to 10 weeks when you are unemployed and reporting every two weeks, but don’t get any money and you have pay back any overpayment you received before you get any more money.
Hope that helps