Do I Need to Report This Work to EDD Even if the Pay is All Going to My Partner

[ceciliarhodes]

My question involves unemployment benefits for the state of: California


I am on California Unemployment Insurance with EDD. My partner and I have a part time job as resident managers for an apartment complex. The management company wants me to report this legitimately to EDD and wants me to report that I work a min. of 20 hours at $10 per hour just for my availability as resident manager. However we have told them it is fine to just send the check to my partner in his name. Then we verified that only he will be paying taxes on what we are paid. We wanted to arrange it so he is the only one "working" and I'm not working, just living here. The office insisted that if we share this unit, we share the job and I report those hours. So I've been doing that. But if he's the only one paying taxes on the income and mine isn't being reported as income at all, is it lawful for me to report that as work, even though I won't be the one paying taxes?

The next question is then what should I do?
Can I report that I'm not working any hours since there is no hours are being reported to the IRS? How can we deal with this?

[cbg]

The arrangement you have with your partner is just as illegal on this board as it was on the other board where you posted it. No one on this or any other board is going to help you defraud either the IRS or the unemployment office.