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    Default Unemployment Benefits Overpayment

    My question involves unemployment benefits for the state of: Connecticut. I recently called the CT DOL to see what my options were knowing i was about to exhaust my extension. Since i had worked in New York previously, the representative told me i can place a claim with them. The rep also said that i should have been directed to open this claim with New York before I started an extension with CT. This was never brought to my attention and i did not have any prior knowledge of this. The rep also claimed that thie created an overpayment of unemployment funds from CT. I started receiving funds from NY. I have not received any communication from CT as of yet. Am i liable to repay back Ct?

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    Default Re: Unemployment Benefits Overpayment

    Yes, before you began EUC in CT, you should have been told to file a claim in NY. You might not have been eligible at that time, depending on available wages in your base-year, and then could have gone back to CT to begin EUC.

    You may or may not be in overpayment status with CT on the EUC, depending on whether or not you were qualified for a NY claim at the time your CT state benefits were exhausted.

    No-fault overpayments are occurring more frequently because of the EUC issues exactly like yours. Some states provide hardship waivers under these circumstances.

    Wait until you hear from CT on this. A thorough analysis of your earnings history is in order before CT can say for certain you qualified for a new state claim in NY and should not have been paid EUC by CT. You may need a statement from NY that you did not qualify for a NY claim at the time your CT state benefits were exhausted.

    Had you been qualified for a new state claim in NY, CT could never have paid you EUC, only NY - if that claim quaified. Per the DOL (different state, same principle):
    Claimants are only allowed to “go back” to prior state to collect EUC if they had already established an EUC claim in that state prior to qualifying for regular benefits in another state.

    Because this claimant immediately qualified for the claim in NJ after (exhausting his/her regular claim in VA), s/he was not an exhaustee for EUC purposes and therefore VA could not establish (by law) an EUC claim and was required by to refer the claimant to NJ (as that was the state in which the claimant had regular eligibility).

    Because they could not establish the EUC claim, the claimant therefore did not have any right to go back to VA after his/her NJ claim expired as the VA claim would no longer be the most recent applicable benefit year for the purposes of establishing an EUC claim.
    You are not alone. There are many reports of EUC complications when more than one state is involved for exactly the reason you were given by CT.

    For now, just wait.

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