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    Default Re: Spouse Relocating Can I Collect Unemployment from Ma

    Yes, one can just as easily file in one state as another. I tell them to file in the state they are planning to live in because then you have no complications about changing addresses or reporting for work searches and call ins, as most people are required to do.
    If this person files in MA on line, using his MA address, there will be an address change quickly, and that will take time and be an issue. If he tried to file it in Massachusetts and use his FL address, it will be delayed as they pick up on this, and he will have complications due to work registration requirements and profiling requirements, as he will already have been instructed to report and begin his work search in Massachusetts. They'll have to change his address, change his local office and verify that he has registered for work in the new state.

    Every state has an interstate unit that connects back and forth with other states. Usually these systems are more efficient than the run of the mill state claims systems, as the people who work in them are more specialized, less likely to be new employees.

    This person could not set up a Massachusetts claim, with only Massachusetts wages in Florida and have it adjudicated by Florida law even if he files on the Florida website. There is no good in filing in a state where you think they are "most forgiving" as you cannot be adjudicated by the laws of the state you are filing in if you are not setting up a claim in that state's system.

    Each state system has an appeals system that connects with the other states He will get a decision from Massachusetts, made by a MA adjudicator, using MA law even if he files in Florida.

    Where he files the original claim has nothing to do with whether or not he gets to draw a MA claim and then draw another second series claim on combined wages from FL and MA. It's where his wages are coming from, not where he is filing that makes the claim.

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