Hey guys, it's Ginny Silver.
Many of you collecting California Edd unemployment claims
have reached the end of your benefits.
Those of you on PEUC, Pua or Fed Ed claims have now come to
a close.
Many of you are wondering if you will be able to file a new
regular state unemployment claim and if you will be approved.
The information here on if you will be approved for a regular
unemployment claim is complicated and confusing.
Fortunately, the Edd has oversimplified this information
that they put out to their claimants in their social media,
in their the information put out by Edd on their website,
in their social media and in their press releases is not
all of the qualifications required in order to qualify you
for a new regular unemployment claim.
Unfortunately, the Edd has put out some misleading information
over the last several months regarding who may qualify for
a new regular unemployment claim.
I want to clarify some things for you which are extremely
complicated, so I'm going to be showing you the direct material
from the Edd, as well as a statement from attorney Daniella
Urban from the center for Workers Rights.
Daniella Urban was responsible for the class action lawsuit,
which has resulted in the Edd being required to pay out those
pending certifications by September 30.
I want you to keep in mind so that the information that I'm
presenting to you comes directly from the Edd.
If you have questions on if you personally will qualify for
a new claim, please make sure that you default to asking
those questions to Edd directly is I am not an Edd representative
and I cannot advise you on your own personal claim.
Something that has been extremely problematic has been how
the Edd has presented the possibility of filing a new claim
to claimants reaching the end of their benefits.
The Edd Unfortunately, has posted in many places recently
on their website and press releases on Twitter.
In many other places, that claimants who earned wages within
the last 810 months may qualify for a new unemployment claim.
Unfortunately, this is not all of the information needed
to know if you qualify, and the details needed to determine
if you qualify are quite complicated.
The Edd also routes you to a benefits calculator to see if
you qualify for a new claim.
And once again, unfortunately, this calculator does not always
calculate things out accurately.
The Edd States that to establish a valid claim, you must
have earned at least $300 in the highest quarter of your
base period, $900 in your highest quarter and total base
period earnings of one point 25 times your high quarter earnings.
Now they do not state or here.
However, when I cross reference this publication with another
publication found here, you will see that it is noted, as
you may use one or the other in order to qualify in order
to understand how these benefits will be calculated.
And in order to understand if you will be eligible.
We need to first understand what a base period is.
Base period is a twelve month period of time.
Each base period has four quarters, and each quarter is three
months long.
Now, most claims will go off of the standard base period,
and the standard base period is the first four quarters of
the last five completed calendar quarters prior to to the
beginning date of the unemployment claim.
Now today is September 13.
So many of you will be applying for new claims effective
in September.
So right here we see that if your claim begins in July, August
or September, that your standard base period would be these
four quarters shown here.
Now, many of you may not have sufficient wages in the standard
base period, and you may not have enough wages within the
four quarter shown here.
In order to qualify.
In that case, then the Edd will automatically consider if
you have enough wages to file a claim using the alternate
base period.
The alternate base period is the last four completed calendar
quarters prior to the beginning date of the claim.
For those of you filing in September, this means that your
alternate base period would include these months.
Now the unemployment benefits calculator will calculate this
portion for you.
So if this step confuses you, yes, go over and use the unemployment
benefits Calculator.
There is no reason to do this calculation yourself.
Now, once you determine whether you qualify for a standard
base period or an alternate base period, next, you're going
to want to look at exactly how much in wages you earned in
each quarter.
Why?
Because if you earned a significant amount of wages in one
quarter versus another, you want to make sure that the date
that you file your unemployment application allows that quarter
to be included in your calculation for weekly benefit word
amount. If you apply too early, you may not have if you apply
to early, your base period is going to be determined based
on your application date.
That application date may not.
Then include the quarter with your highest earnings, and
that would result in you getting approved but having a significantly
lower weekly benefit award amount.
As you can see here, the month in which you file your claim
determines the month that are used to calculate how many
wages and what your weekly benefit word amount will be.
This means that for those of you who are filing a new claim
who had very inconsistent wages, the date of your application
may be extremely important in terms of actually getting you
qualified for your unemployment claim.
For those of you that had enough earnings to qualify you
within a standard base period, you will want to take into
account when you had the most earnings to determine when
you should file a new claim.
For those of you that recently went back to work for some
period of time, you may have had the majority of your earnings
in month, April, May and June.
However, if you are applying and are approved under a standard
base period, April, May and June will not be taken into account
with your weekly benefit board amount or your approval.
Why?
Because we are currently in the month of September, as you
see here in the month of September, for applications received
with a September date, they will be looking at the following
quarters in order to qualify you.
So for those of you that earn the majority of your income
in April, May and June that would qualify you for a new claim,
you may wish to wait until October to apply for those of
you who qualify based on an alternate base period.
If we look here at the month of September, they will be looking
at your April, May, and June income in order to qualify.
This means that for those of you that earned a significant
amount of earnings in July, August and September, you may
want to wait to apply until October next in order to qualify
for a new unemployment claim.
Pandemic related reasons are no longer something that we
qualify you for a claim.
Daniella Urban from the center of Workers Rights.
Let me know that this is not something that will qualify
you for a regular unemployment claim currently, because these
pandemic related programs have ended.
If you are terminated from your employment due to no fault
of your own, then yes, you would qualify.
However, those COVID related reasons such as needing to stay
home to to care for a child due to lack of childcare no longer
pertain to being approved for a regular unemployment.
Next, this is extremely important, and the Edd does not post
this information anywhere that can be easily found.
Requalification Requirements The Edd States to requalify
for a subsequent new claim, meaning that you had one claim
and now it's followed by the next one.
You must have earned $300 in one quarter or at least $900
in your highest quarter and total of 1.25 times your high
quarter earnings, which was the same as before, but then
they add in during the benefit year of your original claim.
That means that when you started your last unemployment claim
within that total claim time, your earnings in the amount
of these requirements must have taken place within that claim,
which is twelve months.
They state that under California law and federal law, wages
that have already been used to determine the amount of UI
benefits payable on a claim cannot be used again in the future
to file another UI claim.
This is different than what the Edd States across the board.
This information, while is provided by the Edd on their website,
is very difficult to find.
It is within a specific publication linked within other information
it's hard to locate and it is not what they are promoting
on their Twitter page on their benefits, your end page, etc.
This information is difficult to find and this is the information
that they need to be sharing prominently.
As these 2.2 million claimants lose their benefits benefits.
This is problematic because this is extremely complicated.
It is not information that is being shared.
When the Edd posts about those who may qualify to receive
a new claim, it's difficult to locate and they're not providing
clear answers to people regarding this information.
Even their benefit calculator is not programmed for this
information. So if you are trying to file a new regular unemployment
claim, why am I sharing this information with you?
Which is complicated, confusing.
And if you're watching this, it might seem like I don't even
understand it myself.
Well, it's important for you guys to understand that this
information may disqualify you from receiving a new claim.
I want you to have all the information available so that
you are able to plan accordingly, so I'm going to continue
to press this issue with the Edd.
I have an email into my contact in the media Department surrounding
several questions about this.
They have not yet replied, but I do hope that they are able
to provide me with some more information.
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