My question involves unemployment benefits for the state of: California
Hi
I have exhausted my UI benefits in California and am now waiting for California to digest the newly passed UI benefit and to notify me.
I did receive one letter basically saying - we (California EDD) are working on it - there is no need to contact us - we will contact you.
But I have noticed that on their website they are asking people whose benefits ran out before the new bill was passed - on Nov 8th/09 - to refile their claims.
I am reluctant to do this as I fear that they will shift my BASE PERIOD that the new claim would be based on to a period when I was already unemployed.
I plan to wait it out, based on the letter that they sent to me - stating
basically - don't contact us, we will contact you.
Here is the paragraph from EDD's site:
http://www.edd.ca.gov/Unemployment/N...Extensions.htm
Those who exhausted all of their available benefits before November 8 will most likely be advised to submit a new application for the extension benefits. Because so much time elapsed between when these claimants ran out of their benefits and when the federal government enacted the new extensions, EDD has to collect updated claimant and employment-related information to file these claims. To save time, it’s recommended these claimants go ahead and submit a new application for the extension benefits now online. For those unemployed workers who ran out of their benefits after November 8, EDD should be able to automatically file their new extension claims and send them claim forms to be completed and returned.
Anybody have any thoughts on this?
Thanks

