My question involves unemployment benefits for the state of: California
I have been one of the many long-termed unemployed people in California - since 10/04/2007. I started receiving my 3rd federal extension benefits the week of 11/22/2009. My weekly benefits were $450. I filed my original claim 10/04/2007 and it expired a year later. On Dec. 31, 2009, I was on my 3rd federal extension.
In May 2009, I took a part-time job paying $75-$150/week. According to EDD, in the 3rd quarter of 2009, I made $1507. This then triggered EDD to automatically file a new unemployment claim for me January 3, 2010. Now, my weekly benefits are now $60. Can they do that? Does anyone know what my options are? The new claim EDD awarded me states it was filed 1/3/2010, the date I last worked for my employer was 1/16/2010 (I'm confused by that) and that I am still working parttime (which is true). How can the date last work be 2 weeks after the date filed?
Does this mean that if I keep this claim and it expires on 1/3/2011, that I can open a new claim on that date if I'm still working parttime? Does anyone have any experience with this?

