Hey, guys, it's Ginny Silver.
And today I have an update for those of you in the state
of California about the California Edd.
Some new developments this last week, as well as a few things
to look out for coming up.
First, Let's talk about job search requirements.
The Edd has made a clarification regarding their work search
requirements that are so go into effect July 11th.
Starting July 11th, the California Edd will require you
to be searching for work each week in order to qualify to
receive your unemployment benefit.
July 11th.
California Unemployment and Pandemic unemployment claimants
are required to be searching for work in order to qualify
to receive unemployment benefits.
Claimants are required to search for work use claim starting
on July 11th, you must begin your work search.
So if you were not previously looking for work and answering
Yes to the Are you looking for work question on the Biweekly
certifications page starting on July 11th and onward, you
will be required to search for work.
Select Yes that you are looking for work now.
The Edd issued a statement on their Twitter today which clarifies
the work search requirements a bit.
They stated today on their Twitter page that you are required
to search for work in one way or more per week.
So for those of you who are worried about the numerical value,
how many work search activities must you be performing per
week? The answer is one or more.
You're required to search for work in one of the approved
methods per week, one time per week.
They also further clarified and stated that you're encouraged
but not required to state and list a record of your work
search history.
Tweeted When the work search requirement restarts on July
11 th, claimants must do one or more work search activities
to be eligible for benefits.
We encourage you to keep track and document your efforts.
The Edd has also stated that they will be adding additional
text to their certifications page.
So for those of you who are wondering if the page will be
changed because for some of you, it currently asks you to
list three searches on the following page.
The Edd has stated that they will be adding additional text
to the certification page once these work search requirements
go into the effect, so mine that work search does not necessarily
mean applying to a specific job.
The Edd has outlined many different ways in which you can
satisfy the WorkSource requirement, depending on what type
of clean you have next.
The Edd has clarified the MEUC Boost Net earnings requirement.
I put out several videos recently on the MEUC Boost, the Mixed
Earns Unemployment Compensation boost, which is an additional
100 dollars per week boost for individuals who had both selfemployed
income and W two earnings but were classified based on their
W2 earnings alone.
If you need more more information on what that program is,
who qualifies in all of the details that click the video
in the description down below.
The question that many of you myself included we're having
is that the Edd was not clear in their requirements for which
tax year you will be required to provide documentation for
now, my guess was that this would be based on your base period
because that is how your unemployment earnings are calculated.
But in yesterday's video I went into the notes notification
that was sent to UI online.
Recipients of the MEUC Boost claims who are eligible to apply
for the MEUC Boost had begun to receive UI online inbox messages,
letting them know of the details of the program and to be
on the lookout for their application link.
Well, in the sample document that I used in that video I
noticed a discrepancy.
The Edd stated that they were going to be checking for 2,020
income and then they went on to ask ask for 2,019 proof documents.
Last night I reached out to the EDD's media Department and
they did get back to me with a clarification.
Edd stated Income proof is for the year prior to the start
of the claim, ie if claim started in 2020, the income proof
would be from 2019 will aim to post more info on the federal
provisions for unemployment page to make that clearer.
That means that the notification that you are receiving in
a UN online inbox is most likely custom tailored to your
own claim.
However, they seem to be stating two different years in some
of the notification emails that are being sent out based
on their reply, they will be asking you for the year prior
to your unemployment claim to be provided.
In terms of documentation of you are going to notice site
outages on the four th of July and the five th of July.
The website is going to be down for scheduled maintenance.
Additionally, many of you are going to still notice once
again on Sunday certification day that the website is now
functioning. Many of you are still reporting difficulty accessing
your UI online to Certify from last Sunday.
So I want you guys to remember the tricks that help with
accessing their faulty website because this Sunday you should
anticipate once again the website to either crash require
constant refreshing or they may be limiting access to the
website. Now, if you cannot log in at all to UI online on
certification day, go to your email inbox your personal email
inbox find an old email from the Edd.
It can be at any point in time in that email there's going
to be be a blue link that says UI online and that is the
link to go and log in to UI online.
Accessing UI online from that link seems to work for most
people even when the site is down or has the limited capacity
message. Next, I want you guys to be mentally prepared that
many of your claims may be stuck in pending mode as we enter
into a new quarter on April 10th, we had a large number
of claims go into pick claims for the most part where unemployment
claims UI PEUC, or Fed Ed claims that had entered into a new
quarter of the year after having an unemployment claim for
over the course of a full year.
The Edd does not address this anywhere on their website.
They did not address him as a problem when I emailed them
about this.
That what we learned when we had a massive amount of claims
going to Pending.
Claim week ending 4/10 is that when claim is called into customer
service, they were told that because their claim was over
a year old, claims subject to a new quarter review at the
start of a new quarter, claims are put into pending and have
a stop payment alert until the representative can manually
push them through to paid.
Now 4/10 was the first quarter of the year because we had
January, February, March, and at the end of March our first
full and at the end of March, our first full week of receiving
unemployment benefits ended claim week ending 4/10.
The end of the first full unemployment week in the new quarter
is going to be claim week ending July 10th.
I would anticipate this to be the week that may get stuck
in pending.
For those of you who are on claims that are over a year old.
If your claim is over a year old and you find yourself stuck
in pending, claim week ending July 10 h know that you are
most likely subject to a new quarter review.
You will need to call into customer service in order to get
it cleared.
I understand that calling into customer service is extremely
difficult, so I'm going to link all of my how to call tips
in the video description down below.
Now I ask the Edd if they would address this problem, if
they were aware of this problem, if they were able to provide
any sort of information in any way because it is affecting
a large number of you and it is not listed anywhere on the
website. Their response was that they did not know that this
was a problem and that they are looking into it.
Okay, you guys, I hope that was helpful.
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We anticipate this to occur claim wake.
What is it going to be?
I don't know what's gonna be.
What's today's date, the calculator.
That's not a calendar.
I don't even know how to use my next.
The EDD's website is going to be down on July four th and
July fifth for maintenance.
Additionally, on Sunday, the July the July fourth, the July
fourth.