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Also, file very soon, like before the end of the year for unemployment benefits. Each quarter change will be a quarter of wages which drops off, to be replaced by a more recent quarter when you may not have been working. Unemployment benefits are monetarily based on the past 18 months, not your entire work history, and if you are off work for any significant length of time without filing a claim (which sets up for one year from the date filed) you may not have enough wages in the quarters to set up a claim. Even if you have not gotten off disability, or have not been released by your doctor, file the claim for unemployment now and see if you have monetary eligibility. You can then wait to begin drawing it out until you are released by your doctor to return to work.
Unemployment insurance is not related to and can be filed for concurrently with other claims that you may be filing, with Wage and Hour or related to disability or age discrimination. It is to be available to those monetarily eligible who are out of work through no fault of their own and fully released by their medical provider as able, available and actively seeking work. But you need to file the claim right away before the quarters change again to try to preserve the wages in the quarters used right now.