Hi, guys.
It's Ginny Silver, and today I'll talk to those of you in
the state of California regarding a California Edd unemployment
update on some of the major issues and concerns that you
are seeing this last week with your unemployment claims.
Most frequently asked question this last week in my comments,
has been regarding back dating, with the end date of Pua
applications no longer being accepted after October 6 for
backdated claims that are effective for weeks up until the
program expired on September 4, any of you are wondering
if you have missed the opportunity to backdate your preexisting
PUA claim.
Now I reached out to the Edd and they did confirm that there
is no deadline for backdating a preexisting PUA claim as
long as you have good cause for why you did not request the
backdate. Initially, it's important to note that the Edd
has a 15 month limit applied to back dating any type of claim.
So if you're back dating an effective claim start date to
be requested any further back than 15 months, it will be
denied those of you that filed your application on December
27 or later.
The earliest you can request back date is going to be twelve
six, according to the stimulus legislation.
And if you filed your claim 12/26 or earlier, the earliest
that you could potentially backdate to would be as early
as February 2.
It's important to keep in mind that the Edd has a 15 month
rule. When it comes to back dating, you cannot backdate a
claim further back than 15 months, regardless of any other
deadlines next.
For those of you that are still awaiting you're pending certifications
to be pushed through to paid by means of conditional payments,
the Edd has surpassed their September 30 deadline, which
was dictated in the class action court settlement agreement.
Now I asked the Edd to address this.
They have no comment on the issue.
They simply redirected me back to the pending payments page
on their website.
I also asked the center for Workers Rights attorney Daniela
Irvin about information on this, but unfortunately, she was
unable to comment.
This leads me to believe that the class action settlement
as well as the Edd are negotiating further within the court
system on a new potential deadline.
Once I have more information, I'll be sure to share.
As many of you have been asking for an update regarding the
Pua reassessment button that was promised to be on your dashboard
and UI online by the end of September, California Edd stated
that for those of you that were denied specific weeks of
Pua and were marked as either not paid or disqualified for
those weeks previously that they would provide on your UI
online dashboard a button to request those weeks to be reassessed.
Unfortunately, the Edd also blew past this deadline as well,
and I did ask the Edd for a follow up on it, and unfortunately,
the Edd let me know that they were getting closer to having
this tool ready, but it still was not yet available.
Next.
For those of you who are awaiting your Dncp claim next, for
those of you who are awaiting your DNCP claim, if you have
not yet received it, I want you to make sure that you do
in fact qualify.
The Edd, unfortunately, has issued out award letters without
letting you know that that claim is actually Invalid and
that you do not qualify for many who applied for a new claim
when they reached the end of their benefit year, they were
awarded a brand new claim, and then that claim was put onto
the Deferred new claim program, meaning that it was set aside
later because it was for a lesser amount and they were able
to continue to collect a PEUC extension that was you and
your claim was set aside and you still have not received
your Deferred claim.
I want to make sure that you do, in fact, qualify for that
claim because the Edd has failed to mail out Invalid claim
notices, letting you know that you do not qualify for many
claimants they did not perform any work since filing their
original unemployment claim.
In order to qualify to receive that new claim, you must have
performed work within your last benefit year.
That means from your last old claim start date, you must
have had at least $1,300 in wages within one quarter of that
last year.
That means that within your old benefit here, you must have
had at least one quarter with $1,300 or more in wages in
order to qualify.
If you did not perform any work at all within your last benefit
here of your prior claim, then unfortunately you do not qualify.
Now, the Edd has failed in this Department with issuing notices
that you do not qualify and instead awarded claims without
actually informing claims that this was incorrect.
If this is you and you have not yet received your Dncp claim,
please call in to Edd.
They will either apply the claim to you if you have not yet
received it and you do qualify, or they may let you know
that that claim award was Invalid due to lack of work during
your last benefit here.
Lastly, for those of you that are having trouble calling
into the Edd, and you need to call in to resolve either these
pending issues, Dncp issues, backstage issues, or a number
of other problems that you're still having with your claims,
I want you to use the links in the video description in order
to get through faster.
One, three, four phone trick is working much more effectively
now that there is a significant reduction in the volume of
callers calling into California Edd.
Additionally, if you are not able to get through using that
method, you can still utilize Claimer, which is a third party
service that will call the Edd on your behalf put you in
line for the next available call and then send it back to
your phone when it is available.
They also do protect you from dropped calls, so if your call
is disconnected, then they will send you ten free additional
Callbacks this is a paid service, but the link in the video
description will save you $5 on your first call.
Lastly, contact your assembly members if you are unable to
get through to the Edd.
They have been very helpful to many of my subscribers and
getting them pushed from Penn, getting to paid or resolving
many other issues.
Okay, you guys.
I hope that was helpful.
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