Hey guys, it's Ginny Silver.
Today I decided to do a quick community post and gather a
few of your questions to do a very brief Q and A for you
first, what happens after September with Edd?
Well, Edd will continue to exist Edd.
The Employment Development Department is the state unemployment
insurance Department and it's going to continue to exist.
What will cease to exist after claim week ending September
fourth.
We will see the end of the PEUC extension, the end of the
Pua program.
In the end of the 300 dollars boost.
Ui will continue on as usual, and UI claimants can continue
to apply for unemployment insurance and receive their full
unemployment insurance claims.
But Fed Ed will continue if the state unemployment rate remains
high at 6% or above.
Fed Ed also remains active if the state unemployment rate
exceeds or equals 5% and is at least 120% higher than the
average unemployment rate for the same period in the two
previous years.
Now that is a little bit complicated and it is unlikely that
it would meet that qualification.
So we are looking mostly at the 6% or above rate in order
for Fed Ed to continue.
For those of you that have received UI benefits after the
PEUC extension ends, you may qualify to go on a Fed Ed extension.
For more information on that, click the link in the video
description down below for the video that is called Benefits
Ending what's Next?
And I go into great detail about this topic.
Now, many of you are also asking me if there is the possibility
for unemployment benefits for PEUC extensions and PUA in the
300 dollars boost to be extended another time beyond September
fourth.
This would require additional legislation in Congress to
be voted on and passed.
We are not at the point where we are looking at anything
being voted on or pass right now, but if anything changes,
I will be sure to update you.
For those of you who are collecting Pua or have reached the
end of your PEUC the extension, you do not qualify for Fed
Ed because PEUC and Pua will no longer exist.
Your balances will no longer be able to be paid out to you,
and you will need to plan on an alternative plan at the end
of claiming ending September fourth.
The next question I was receiving payments and got stuck
in pending.
I marked Yes on my work search and even listed where I applied.
I'm on regular UI.
Any information with help.
Now, many of you may have certified.
You may have stated that Yes you were looking for work and
you may have listed your work search options or you may have
not. The work search option record is required to be listed
only if you are a Fed Ed claimant feed.
Claimants are required to provide three work searches per
week and list their work searches, whereas UI, PEUC and PUA
must perform one or more work search activities per week,
and listing those is only suggested.
Your pending status is most likely not tied to the work search
activities that you reported, but rather tied to either some
form of a stop payment alert applied to your claim or the
need to undergo a new quarter wage review.
For those of you that are collecting UI or PEUC or Fed Ed,
and your claim has reached the end of a year's worth of benefits
and you are currently on an extension, the Edd is required
to perform a quarterly wage review wherein on many claims
over a year old, they must ask you a series of questions
in order to see if you have earned any wages and if you qualify
to go onto a new claim for those of you that find yourself
stuck in Pending, I want you to first make sure that you're
not required to file a new claim.
Go to UI online.
Look at your claim start date count 12 months out after that,
if you're UI, PEUC, or Fed Ed and you are beyond a year's
worth of benefits, then you are required to file a new claim.
If you have worked in early earned income within the last
18 months and it is enough to qualify you for a new claim.
If that's the case, then you'd be pending for that reason
and you need to file a new claim.
For just about all other cases where you have previously
been collecting and you are stuck in Pending, you guys will
need to either.
Number one, wait for conditional payments.
The Edd has begun to pay out these Pending certification
starting on July 23 Rd and moving onwards.
According to the Class Action Settlement Agreement, the Edd
is required to pay out those claims that have received one
previous unemployment payment on their claim or more and
are stuck in Pending for over two weeks.
They must issue these conditional payments sometime between
July 22 nd and September 30 th, according to the Settlement
agreement. For those of you who can't wait or who do not
want to wait, you may call into the Edd.
In most cases, the Edd representatives are able to move you
from Pending to paid unless a phone interview is required.
In most cases, you may also call into your Assembly member.
The California State Assembly members have been extremely
helpful in getting claimants pushed from Pending to paid,
so I'm going to leave all of those links for each piece of
information in the video description down below.
The next question asks, My brother is confused.
Back in April, he got denied for his benefits because he
quit his job and he was stuck in Pending and now they ended
up paying him.
Would he have to pay the money back?
The answer here is most likely Yes, but there is a potential
for an overpayment waiver to be granted in order to collect
and be eligible for unemployment benefits, you must have
lost your source of employment through no fault of your own
or a COVID related reason because he quit his job voluntarily
and it doesn't seem to be due to a COVID related reason.
Then he would be stuck in pending until they determine his
eligibility. Because he is not eligible to collect those
benefits and he certified that he was eligible to collect
those benefits, they most likely are going to issue him an
overpayment notice and want to collect those benefits back.
Now, the Edd does have the option to apply for an overpayment
waiver. In this scenario, there's no guarantee that he would
have this overpayment waiver approved.
In order to have the overpayment waiver approved, he would
need to be able to demonstrate that he had severe financial
hardship and that he also had these overpayments issued to
him through no fault of his own.
The next question asked, I am PEUC and Certifying for last
week. It says it's optional recording work search, but if
you are Fed Ed, you have to record your work search.
Is PEUC the same as Fed Ed?
The answer here is no.
PEuc is not the same as Fed Ed.
In order to know which program you are, click on the History
tab in the upper menu area and click on the most recent transaction
that has been paid there.
You will see the program code if you're listed as Fed Ed
in your fed ed.
If you're listed as PEUC, Tier two or Tier two augmentation
than your PEUC, and if you're listed as Dua, then you are
PUA. Now, according to the Edd, PEUC is required to perform
one or more work search activities per week, and recording
these on the certification page is optional.
Fed Ed is required to perform three work search activities
or more per week, and recording them is required next.
I'm a mixed earner and self employed who is put on unemployment.
Why do I have to look for work if I'm self employed?
The Edd is going to continue to pay out your benefits if
you are searching for suitable works.
There's a variety of different work search activities that
you can do in order to satisfy the work search requirements.
Now, the Pua search requirements and the UI work search requirements
are different.
Because you're a mixed earner, you are classified as unemployment
UI, so the Edd is going to want you to still satisfy those
UI based requirements.
But the UI work search activities don't have to be necessarily
applying to jobs through a variety of different work search
activities that you can perform, including simply searching
job boards, networking, or seeking out employment opportunities
in other ways.
Now, because you are a mixed earner, you may be trying to
focus primarily on rebuilding your self employment or your
small business or whatever it is that you do in terms of
self employment.
In that case, continue to try to focus your efforts in that
area. But because you are collecting traditional unemployment,
I would also recommend that you do something from the traditional
Unemployment Work search activity list, such as networking,
talking to friends and family about job opportunities, pulling
up job boards and job listings, and running a simple search,
seeing what's out there and screenshotting your results to
save for your records.
Now, I'm going to go ahead and take this last one, which
was the only non Edd related question in this community post.
So I'm just going to go ahead and humor in at any of your
weddings that you have covered.
Have you ever been hit on by either the bride and or groom?
Or if Mike was with you, did either the bride or groom hit
on him?
Now, many of you know that I'm a wedding photographer, and
that's my primary pre pandemic source of income.
The answer, there is no, you guys, I am a mess at weddings.
I am carrying loads of gear.
I'm usually directing large groups of people.
I'm constantly moving and constantly busy.
No one wants to get near that.
But previously, about maybe eight years ago, in the first
few years of wedding photography, my husband, Mike was my
second shooter, and he hasn't been in quite some time.
But he did second shoot for me earlier on, and Mike was very
popular amongst the male.
Guess so.
There was one time when there was an entire table, the reception
of male wedding guests found my husband quite attractive.
I then decided to go over and drop something near the table
and make Mike pick it up.
And it was a very, very popular move.
Okay, you guys, I hope that was helpful.
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