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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.
There's still bad employees working in those units too. Had a claimant that lived in TX and worked in a small TX satellite office of a LA employer. The TWC employees really pressured the claimant, "just go file in LA. I can see the wages there. You can have your claim right now." Had the claimant not fought the good fight that required an appeal she'd have been out $200/wk because of the lower LA benefit amount.

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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.
I could a post link to a real life story, but it would probably get deleted. Was it mistake, maybe, but it was in the claimant's favor and I never heard another word about an overpayment issue.

While the situations may be rare, they've involved earnings of federal employees that had multiple state addresses available to them, people that had wages from different states in the base period, and employees of companies that didn't necessarily report their taxes to the right state.

On the flip side, I could post another link to a story of how applying in the wrong state turned into a mess especially when it came to an EUC issue and the claimant had no traction as each state pointed the finger at the other. It was a costly lesson.

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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.
With the threads I've seen from claimants on UI in FL, there is NO way I'd let a FL UI worker touch my claim unless it was the only choice available to me.