Prior Claim Extended Benefits Affect Current Claim

My question involves unemployment benefits for the state of: New York
Is it true that if I exhausted all Extended Benefits from a claim begun in May 2006, I am not eligible for Extended Benefits for a claim begun in October 2010?

Very complex question.

There's EUC and extended benefits. Two different animals.

Also a claim opened in 2006 and another in 2010 presents other issues. It requires a lot of information that you didn't provide such as when you started, stopped a regular state claim vs a tier of EUC vs when you started EB, and was there another claim between 2006 and 2010. EUC didn't come into existence until 2008.

Personally, I don't think you were collecting extended benefits (EB) on the 2006 claim, but rather against the 2010 claim. Generally, access to EB from a prior claim is lost when a new claim is established, and that appears to be what happend to you. Only EUC from a prior claim is payable after a new claim is opened. So I suspect you bounced back and forth, and lost track of where you were in the process.

could you expand on EUC and extended benefits and the source and differences of the two?

I would think that might help people understand the situation a bit more.

EUC was authorized in 2008 as the unemployment in many states was starting to crest 10%. It was broken into four Tiers of 20 weeks, 14 weeks, 13 weeks and 6 weeks for for a grand total of 53 weeks.

Then there was Extended Benefits EB. This goes back to the 1970's and it was triggered when a state has a rising unemployment as opposed to just having a high rate. Example: state might have a traditionally high rate and would never trigger on, but if the rate was 5% and then climbs to 10% that is what it takes. It had two tiers: 13 weeks if the states UR was less than 8.5% or 20 weeks if >= 8.5%.

This is how the 99 weeks the news talks about comes in. 26 state claim + 53 weeks EUC tiers 1-4 + 20 weeks EB = 99 weeks.

Also, 1 year into a claim about the time you are in the middle of tier 2, you get reevaluated to see if the a new base period will qualify you for a new claim. So it's possible that after 52 weeks (51 weeks of benefits + 1 week waiting week) that the 2 quarters from up to 18 months ago + part time earnings will qualify you for a new state claim, and that's when people start getting confused. Because after the new 26 state claim ends, you go back to EUC for the prior claim, and then the bouncing back and forth can begin.

thanks chyvan.

The 2006 claim began in May of that year. There was not break for any reason, and i received the maximum weeks available which, in my memory, was about 2 years. I no longer remember the various names attached.

I worked in 2010, enough to establish the basis for a new claim, which began in october 2010. There was one break of about a month for temporary employment in that claim. I have now exhausted all EUC benefits and have received conflicting info from representatives as to whether my exhausting all benefits from the 2006 claim means that I do not have any available on the 2010 claim.

Thank you for responding to this.