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    Default Reopening a UI Claim

    My question involves unemployment benefits for the state of: California

    I was laid off in March 2008. I was in the first 3 weeks of Fed-Ed when I found a job in June. Reported the income in June, had a telephone interview in August, received a check for partial payment for June, and also filled out the two additional claim forms that they'd sent, writing down that I was still working. I didn't receive anything else from EDD so I figured they'd closed out my case.

    I was let go a couple of weeks ago and called EDD. Spoke with a rep there who told me that this would be considered a continuation of my original claim from March 2008, and not a new claim.

    Since then I have received two separate letters from EDD with two separate interview dates scheduled. One to discuss payment from previous employer (I'm assuming this is regarding the job I was recently let go from ?) and one to discuss not mailing the claim forms within the required time frame. I also received a slew of new claim forms to fill out, dating back to the week after I last qualified for payment in June.

    I'm not sure what's going on with the forms I mailed back to EDD in August after my initial telephone interview. I filled the new forms out and just mailed them back - I have no idea what happened. I'm also wondering if the fact that I checked "no" under "presently looking for work" will go against me, even though I had a job that was paying more than unemployment and didn't anticipate being unemployed again within 5 months.

    Thoughts?

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    Default Re: Reopening a UI Claim

    Are you stating that they've asked you to submit forms that you previously submitted? We have no way of knowing what happened to forms that were lost, either, other than surmising that they were lost.

    If you weren't looking for work during a particular period of time because you were employed full-time at a wage level that didn't qualify you for a partial unemployment benefit, that's a perfectly reasonable explanation for not seeking another job.

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    Default Re: Reopening a UI Claim

    Quote Quoting Mr. Knowitall
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    Are you stating that they've asked you to submit forms that you previously submitted? We have no way of knowing what happened to forms that were lost, either, other than surmising that they were lost.

    If you weren't looking for work during a particular period of time because you were employed full-time at a wage level that didn't qualify you for a partial unemployment benefit, that's a perfectly reasonable explanation for not seeking another job.
    That's exactly what I was asking. While it wasn't full time (typically about 30 hours a week) it paid more than unemployment most weeks and I had no problem taking a hit for those couple of weeks that it didn't. I was just happy to be off of unemployment. Now I have no choice but to go back on it.

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