Hey guys, it's Ginny Silver, and today I have a California
Edd unemployment update for you on some of the major issues
and questions that you guys are seeing and having with your
unemployment claims.
This week, September 6 marked the end date for the federal
provisions for unemployment, including PEUC at the $300 boost
in the MEUC boost claim week ending September 4 was the last
payable week to collect these programs.
For those of you that have not yet collected a payment on
claim week ending September 4, yes, you are able to still
certify for that week and collect benefits for that week
for claim week ending September 4.
After that, PEUC, Pua $300 boost, in the MEUC boost are no longer
payable for weeks after September 4 for many of you who were
collecting UI or PEUC.
Now that PEUC has come to an end, many of you who qualify
to collect Fed Ed benefits will next be migrated over to
the one remaining week of Fed Ed.
The last payable week for Fed Ed benefits is claim week ending
September 11.
That means that for those of you who do qualify to collect
that one remaining week of Fed Ed benefits, the Edd will
next take some time to migrate you over and apply the extension
to your claim.
Many claimants have begun to receive notices either in their
UI online inbox in the mail or via text message, letting
them know that they have been awarded a Fed Ed extension,
while many others are still awaiting their extension.
If you have not yet received this message, please know that
the Edd will most likely take up to two weeks to migrate
claimants over to the Fed Ed extension.
Unfortunately, the Edd did not update their award letter
for the Fed Ed extension.
If you receive this message from the California Edd stating
that you qualify to receive in up to 20 week extension, please
know that unfortunately this program ends after September
11. Now many are wondering if you will be able to collect
that one remaining week of Feed extension.
If the Edd has not yet awarded it to your claim.
The answer here is yes.
The Edd will take some additional time in order to apply
this extension to all claimants.
They are moving a massive number of claimants over to this
program for just that one remaining week, so expect up to
two weeks for them to issue you that notice stating that
you have been awarded a Fed Ed extension, and then after
that point in time, you should then be able to certify for
that one remaining week of Fed Ed benefits.
Next, let's talk about DNCP.
Many of you are asking me about deferred new claim program.
What DNCP refers to is for those claimants who had reached
the end of one year's worth of benefits on UI or PEUC or Fed
Ed, and they previously applied for a brand new claim and
were awarded a new claim.
They may have been kept on a PEUC extension.
Instead of collecting under that new claim for those individuals,
their new claim was deferred and set aside for them to collect
later. This is due to the new claims, a word amount being
significantly less than the prior claim.
In that case, a claimant would have received this notification
letter in UI online.
Their new claim would have been set aside and put on hold
and they would have continued collecting PEUC extension.
Now that the PEUC extension has come to an end, the Edd next
will automatically apply that new claim that the claimant
had already filed for been approved for to their account.
Now that PEUC has come to a close for those claims that were
previously awarded a brand new claim and had it set aside,
the Edd will now automatically apply that deferred claim
to their account.
This will be a traditional unemployment claim based on their
prior wages the year before and it will be a duration of
up to 26 weeks of benefits.
I want to clarify some things for you guys about this.
This is not a new program that you can apply for simply for
claimants who did apply previously at the end of their benefit.
Here for a brand new regular claim and had that claim set
aside, the Edd should automatically apply your deferred claim
to your account and I would anticipate it to take up to two
weeks after you have finished collecting whatever extension
you were on last the of you who have worked within the last
18 months and had enough wages in order to qualify for a
brand new regular unemployment claim, you may apply for a
new unit employment claim once you reach the end of your
benefit year twelve months after your claim start date and
you had enough wages in order to qualify.
Use the EDD's online calculator to see if you may qualify
for a new claim.
Now, many of you are asking me if you reach a zero dollar
balance, but you are within your benefit year.
Are you able to file a new claim?
The answer here is unfortunately no.
You must wait until the end of your benefit year before you
can file a new regular employee claim.
For those of you who were collecting a many of you are asking
me if you can file a new claim, Pua has ended and regardless
of claim balance, you are not able to file a new claim or
collect further Pua benefits.
However, if you happen to have enough employee wages within
the last 18 months and do qualify for a new regular state
unemployment claim, then you would be able to file a new
claim that way.
Unfortunately, this won't apply to most claimes who were
collecting Pua since is primarily established for those with
self employment income.
In order to establish a new regular claim, you would need
to have employee wages.
Those of you who are on a regular UI claim who are before
the 16 week Mark and you want to go back to school or training.
I recommend that you look into a California training extension.
The Edd will continue paying out additional benefits on a
training extension if you apply before week 16 and get your
training program proved by the Edd.
Next, let's talk about those of you who still are seeing
pending certifications.
If you're still stuck in pending, the Edd is required according
to the Class Action Settlement Agreement to pay out your
pending certifications.
Using what's known as conditional payments.
A conditional payment can be applied to your pending certification
if your claim has collected one or more successful unemployment
payouts previously and you have been pending for over two
weeks. For those that qualify for conditional payments, this
means that the Edd will pay your certification and then later
down the line will collect whatever information they need
in order to get you out of pending.
This usually is a phone interview or some sort of documentation
that the Edd needs to collect from you.
Please make sure that if you receive a conditional payment
that you are still on the lookout to conduct your phone interview
or provide whatever documentation is needed.
While many have seen these conditional payments start to
be apply to their claim, some are still waiting completely
with all of their certifications pending, while others are
seeing some paid but not others.
This is because the Edd has up until September 30, according
to the Class Action Settlement Agreement to pay out these
conditional payments.
If you do not want to wait until September 30 and I recommend
calling your assembly member in order to try to get things
expedited. Next, let's talk about a change to the Edd UI
Online Dashboard recently the Edd added a feature to UI Online
Dashboards called the Claim Status Tracker.
The Claim Status Tracker shows an overview of what is going
on with your claim.
This area provides more detailed information than the Edd
has previously provided about your claim.
For those of you that are required to conduct a phone interview,
submit some sort of verification, or have a stop payment
alert on your claim leading to pending payments.
This area will provide a little bit more detail about what
could be going on.
Well, it's a good step to have additional information available
to the claimants.
Unfortunately, this has been riddled with Glitches.
The claim status tracker has been showing incorrect claim
types and incorrect messages and actions per claimants across
the board.
I reached out to my contact at the Edd regarding this issue.
They were not able to provide me any sort of information,
but they did forward the issue over to the proper Department.
It seems to be a technical or programming glitch in their
system in implementing this new feature.
Unless you are having a problem, certifying or other issues
with your claim, I would expect this to correct itself and
not cause any additional problems with your claim.
Next, let's talk about back dating now that we have reached
the end of the federal provisions for unemployment, many
of you are trying to backdate your claim.
Back dating means that you change a claims effective start
date to reflect when you actually were unemployed.
If your claims current start date is incorrect.
Now, I have a full back dating guide available in the video
description with all the information surrounding what date
you could potentially backdate to, why it might be rejected
and other information.
I have several questions regarding backdating that I am currently
trying to get the Edd to provide me with more information
on. Unfortunately, the Edd does not seem to be able to provide
me with clear answers to many of the questions that I have
asked about backdating a claim currently brand new POA claims
can be filed and then backdated up until October 6.
It remains unclear from the Edd if they're still permitting
backdating of preexisting claims.
However, if you have not yet backdated your claim, I would
make sure that you attempt to do so as quickly as possible.
Next, let's talk about the MEUC boost for those of you who
are mixed earners classified as regular unemployment who
had your self employment income disregarded in your application.
If you earned $5,000 or more in selfemployment net income
in the year prior to your unemployment claim, then you would
have qualified to receive an Meuc boost in the amount of $100
per per week.
The Edd has established an MEUC dedicated phone line, so if
you had any problems receiving your application or submitting
your application, make sure that you call into that phone
line to get assistance.
Many of you have had problems with the Edd rejecting your
documentation, although you are submitting a schedule fee.
If your schedule fee is being rejected by the Edd, I recommend
trying to upload the entire tax return to see if the Edd
accepts that.
Right now, clients are continuing to receive those payouts,
but unfortunately, there is no set deadline when the Edd
will complete this process.
Next, many of you are asking for an update on my petition
that I started several weeks back regarding an extension
of California Edd at PUC Pua programs, as well as calling
upon Governor Gavin Newsom to address the issue with claimants
directly and answer if it was possible to reallocate funds
from the American Rescue Plan.
At this point in time, the petition has received nearly 230
signatures. It has been featured in the La Times, in Cal
Matters, in Yahoo Finance.
In many other publications, I reached out to the governor's
office in several different ways.
The governor's office did reply to me with a generic response,
letting me know that other benefit programs were available.
I then reached out to a producer that I'm in contact with
at ABC, and he was able to provide me with a personal email
address for a contact over in the Governor's office, so I
have tried reaching out another way, try to get acknowledged
and try to get your voices heard.
Competition is not going to extend and these programs on
its own.
It is important that I try to continue to advocate for you
guys and get your voices heard as well as try to get the
Governor to address this issue, which still has not been
mentioned by him.
For those of you who are having trouble contacting the Edd,
I want to reiterate to you my call tips which are linked
in the video description.
If you are unable to get through to the Edd, contacting your
assembly members has been extremely helpful for many claimants
to get their issues resolved, get their issues expedited
and get pushed from pending to if you're not sure how to
contact your assembly member or why you would do so, please
see the video description down below for a video explaining
the process as well as a link on how to locate your assembly
member. Okay guys, I hope that was helpful.
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