Guys, it's Ginny Silver.
And today I want to talk to the idiot in the state of California
collecting California Edd Unemployment Benefits who are wondering
how to backdate your claims?
Many of you are trying to backdate your unemployment benefits
as we reach the end of the federal pandemic unemployment
programs. Peuc, Pua $300 boost are all coming to a close after
claiming ending September 4.
And many of you are trying to figure out how you can backdate
your claims to your actual real start date of unemployment
before those claims.
expire.
The Edd and the Department of labor have stated that PUA claimants
will be able to still apply for benefits and backdate their
claims up to 30 days after the program expires, which means
by October 6 that means that for those of you that have not
yet applied, you can still apply up until before October
6. But I want to emphasize for you to do this as soon as
possible. I do not recommend waiting up in until that deadline
because we do not want any glitches coming through stopping
you from receiving your benefits, of receiving them in a
timely manner.
So for those of you who have not yet applied for PA, if you
are applying before this October 6 deadline, yes, you will
be able to backdate that new Pua claim.
Now, for those of you that have a current Pua claim or current
unemployment claim, I do not want you to wait to backdate
try to do this as soon as possible.
So for those of you who have a current existing Pua claim
who are wondering when the last date to back date should
be for you, I do not want you to wait past that September
4 end date of the programs.
Please try to apply for your back dating before the PUA program
ends. Now, for those of you who are wondering, will I be
paid back dated weeks if I file them on time?
But the Edd is still processing my request after September
4? The answer here is that yes, you should be entitled to
receive those backdated payments because there are four effective
weeks prior to the programs and date.
So if you backdated your Pua claim and submitted the backdate
request before September 4, then yes, the Edd will take time
still to process that request and issue those payments, but
you should be entitled to them.
For those of you that need to backdate your claims, you can
do so yourself by going to Ask Ed Edd CA Gov from there,
you will be able to submit the backdate request by performing
these steps.
First, you're going to go to Ask Ed Edd CA Gov from there,
scroll down and on the right hand side, click on Unemployment
Insurance Benefits.
After that, you're going to scroll down to select a sub category
and you will click on Clean Questions.
Next, you're going to click the first option, back date the
effective date of my claim.
From there, you will click Continue, and then after that,
you will enter in your personal information here.
At the very bottom, you are going to be asked to enter in
the effective date.
You are requesting to backdate your UI claim with the date
format of two digits for the month, two digits for the day,
and four digits for the year, and you are going to type back
date it and then enter in the date using that format.
Now, if you filed your unemployment claim December 26 or
earlier, you can backdate your claim as early as potentially
February 2 2020.
If you filed your unemployment application December 27 or
later, then you can backdate your claim as early, potentially
as December 6 2020.
Now, once you have submitted your backdate request, it can
take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months for the Edd
to process it and either approve it or deny it.
After that, it can then also take a few weeks to a few months
for Edd to issue those certifications.
Unfortunately, there's no set time frame that Edd States
regarding how long it takes to process and certify for backdated
payments. Many of you are letting me know that your backdate
requests are being denied.
Even if you are submitting a date that is within those date
parameters, there can be a few different reasons for this.
One potential reason for this could be if backdating your
claim changes your claim or your weekly benefit word amount
too much.
When you backdate a claim, you are shifting the claim start
date back.
That means then that your base period is also shifted.
The base period is the twelve month period prior to being
on employed that the Edd looks at the amount of earnings
you had and uses it to establish your weekly benefit award
amount. If you backdate your claim and shift that base period,
it can potentially have a big change in your weekly benefit
award amount, which would result in overpayments.
Now, the Edd does have a list of reasons why your backdate
request could be denied.
However, it's pretty hard to find this on the EDD's main
website. In addition to the reasons that I already listed,
if you look at item number C, then your backdating request
can also be denied because the back date would go into your
prior benefit year for those of you that had an older claim
already established.
If you're trying to backdate into a date that is actually
included within your old benefit year, then that would be
a reason for denial as well.
Additionally, your back dating can be denied if it reaches
a period over 65 weeks.
Now, this one is important and I have an email into the Edd
in order to confirm that this does still apply to pandemic
related reasons.
But what this States here and this could be the reason why
many of you are being denied is that the Department cannot
file a claim that would be over 15 months old at the time
of filing.
It is now the end of August, which means that those of you
that are trying to backdate a claim from way back in the
spring of 2020.
That means that you have reached the end of that 15 month
period, and that could be the reason why it is getting denied.
If the Edd denies you and it seems to be for this reason,
then try resubmitting a new request on asked with the date
that is a little bit closer to your actual claim start date.
Additionally, if your claim is more complicated and it has
many different types of programs involved in it, such as
UI to PEUC to Tier two PEUC to Tier two Augmentation PEUC, then
it can cause complications and backdating.
If this is your problem, then I want you to contact Customer
Service to see if they are able to help you achieve backdating
next. Many of you are letting me know that you're wondering
if you are allowed to submit multiple backdate requests.
Some of you may have already backdated your claim and now
need to change that date to an even earlier date.
For those of you that have already cemented a backdate request
and had it approved, can you back date again?
The answer is possibly if you are a claimant that still doesn't
have your accurate start date for your true date when you
lost your employment or selfemployment reflected in your
claim. If your actual date of unemployment was earlier than
your claim start date, yes, you can submit another application
to backdate your claim to the actual accurate date.
Okay, guys, I hope that was helpful.
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