hey everyone nicholas here and i want to make a video specifically for those of you
with pua claims and the upcoming work search requirements that are coming up this sunday
july 11th so you guys are actually in really good shape you guys have some good news i'm going to
share with you in just a second about your work search activities it's going to be pretty easy
but there's also something else i really want you to pay attention to before this upcoming sunday
and that's this cal job situation now look here's how it goes pua claimants are not required to
register for cal jobs per edd i'm telling you guys don't listen to that advice and here's why
they're stating that regular ui must register with cal jobs after july 11th so that means
anybody before july 11th doesn't need to register but just like i just got done telling the regular
ui folks don't believe it look this is going to be potentially a major glitch in their system
all right so this computer system is going to look at all these claims before july 11th and
after july 11th and the next thing you know it says anybody that has claims before july 11th
pua or regular if you haven't registered with cal jobs it starts putting up a massive flag
everybody moves to pending nobody's getting their payments and all hell breaks loose
let's not have that happen so if you have a pua claim even though you aren't required to do so
my recommendation is this register for cal jobs get your resume uploaded
just take care of this before sunday i don't want you guys to go into a pending situation
where your payments are impacted okay all right the next thing i think is really good news is this
look the work search requirements are super simple whether your regular ui or pua you only have to do
one activity per week all right you don't have to submit documentation either going off of
you know they're going off of your word you do need to press yes every time that you have to
certify for those benefits and it looks like that's going to be in a two-week period okay
but here's the good news if you're in my shoes where your pua business you don't think it's going
to come back after september 4th right you just don't think that it's going to you're going to get
that revenue back and you want to do work search requirements in the meantime in an easier way
right you guys have the same ability and this is directly per edd you can do regular ui work search
requirements which are also super easy these include looking for jobs looking online for
how to build up your resume you know how to do a better interview right maybe you want to apply for
jobs on cal jobs maybe you want to apply for jobs on indeed you know you want to go to a networking
event you know to potentially find a job maybe you want to change your career you don't want
to do your self-employed business anymore whatever those reasons are that whole aspect for regular ui
work search activities those are totally available to you so if you have any questions on that check
out my other video i just posted it and you can apply the same way there so look again we covered
this basis right i want you to apply for cal jobs before the sunday when you guys are going through
and you're hitting these bi-weekly certifications you're going to click yes that you're absolutely
looking for work okay because if you click no what they're going to flag your account all right and
that flag in your account will result in you getting a being pending b not getting paid c
you're gonna have to call in and find out what's going on there which you guys know how difficult
that is and then potentially you may have to wait for a phone interview all right and those
phone interviews can take 6 or 13 weeks guys that's completely avoidable all right so really
quick i'm going to show you what the specific pua work search activities that edd has shared out
let's take a look at those right now so they're specifically stating that engaging in any one
of these activities each week can help you meet work search requirements for the benefits you're
requesting that week these include rebuilding your business efforts to get new or additional clients
marketing your business reviewing current contracts or researching preparing
or submitting a bid on a new contract additionally you can attend networking events participate in
relevant workshops efforts to expand your business beyond services that you typically perform you can
participate in training including enrolling in a training or education course that will help your
business but doesn't interfere with your ability to return to full-time self-employment if you're
an independent contractor who's available for work or perform work on an online platform you can
establish an account on another online platform to search for suitable work okay so this is
pretty simple right let's say that you're an uber driver you can you know go and work for ubereats
you could go work for doordash you could go work for lyft these are all qualifying events that
would help you do that one work search activity per week between july 11th and september 4th when
benefits end so guys those are the pua specific requirements all right now like i'm about to show
you here it literally states right here if you no longer want to continue self-employment or were
previously employed but not eligible for regular unemployment benefits complete a work search
activity for people receiving regular unemployment benefits to meet eligibility requirements
so that's a bunch of six dollar words stating this if you want to look for work and you don't think
that you want to continue to do this pua search activities you can apply for jobs you can brush
up your interviews you can look on youtube on how to create a better resume create a better
cover letter all of those things are available to you and you only have to do one of those a week
now look this is my personal recommendation how i think you guys ought to consider doing it because
it's really easy well the reason that it's easy is because guess what you do need to keep a record
while you don't have to submit documentation you need to have that that documentation in case
they call you and ask to see what you know activities you've done between july 11th and
september 4th the way that i'm doing this that i found easiest for me is because i am looking
for work okay i'm looking to be employed i want to have a smooth transition between benefits stopping
on september 4th and i want to have my job lined up before then i'm applying for three to four
jobs a week on cal jobs or indeed okay that's just how i'm doing it and the reason i'm doing in those
locations is because it's really easy for me to take a screenshot of all the job applications that
i've done that shows it by date okay so if they ever ask me hey show me your work search activity
i'm gonna go grab that screenshot i'm gonna upload that to them and my interviewer is gonna be
okay good good job you know you applied for jobs i see that you've been doing this every week
and i've spent like three minutes of my time doing it i didn't have to write it down in all
these different notebooks i didn't have it in all these different files on my computer it's
all in one central place and i know it's going to meet the requirements every single week and it's
going to set me up for success once benefits end on september 4th the last thing i want to cover
here is this there are some very very small exemptions for those of you with pua claims
and i'm going to go through those but before i do that guys look the exemptions are an ability for
you to say no instead of yes on these bi-weekly certifications whether or not you're looking for
work so perhaps you fall into a situation where you have a pua exemption where you don't need to
be searching for work i'm telling you guys right now just like i'm telling the regular ui folks
do not press no if you have an exemption for your pua claim do not press no the reason being is this
what's going to what that's going to do is that's going to create a flag in the system
okay the computer system is going to flag your claim it's going to flip it to pending you're
going to stop having your payments and then you're going to have to wait to find out what's going on
maybe you got a call or even worse you find out that oh you have to wait for a phone interview
while they review why you're not searching for work and that phone interview can take
six to 13 weeks right now there's no reason to be caught in that trap okay what i'm recommending is
this even if you think that you are eligible for an exemption to not do work search activities and
there's not many here for pua i'm still telling you save yourself the trouble save yourself the
hassle just press yes and do some basic work searches every single week okay that can be
simple like i said looking up a youtube video on how to create a better resume applying for a
job on cal jobs going to a networking event where you talk to some people about you know potentially
looking for some new work whatever it is document it have it one place and you guys will be good
to go and you won't have stop payments alright so let's take a look at what that exemption is right
now all right so they state here importantly depending on what you put as your pandemic
related reason for continued unemployment when certifying for benefits each week you may not
be available for work and will be exempt from the work search requirement for the week for example
if you provide primary care for a child unable to attend school due to the covet 19 health
emergency okay guys this might be where you're at maybe your child you have to take care of and
i understand that you can't look for work because the child is at home with you however do not press
no on that certification i'm telling you if you want your benefits to keep coming press yes and do
a simple work search activity i've already covered all those bases that way you don't get stuck in
pending that way your payments keep coming and you're not stuck in limbo for weeks and weeks
and weeks and weeks okay so look there's another thing coming up this weekend on july 10th and
i'm gonna make another video about this and this is a quarter benefit year-end cycling okay this
happened back in april and what happened in april is that once that quarter benefit year turned over
there's a huge number of people that were impacted okay based off that re that review that edd does
and a lot of people found themselves in a situation where their cases were pending
so there's a couple things coming up this weekend right we've got the quarter benefit year
year review we've got this work search requirement coming up on july 11th and look i'm saying that
there's a potential and hopefully not that there's going to be a lot of pending cases starting next
week now look guys i hope you know if your case is pending and you haven't seen any traction in
two days you need to call edd customer service you've got to do it i'm going to put some demos
on the back end of this video i'm going to show you how to call for free it works about 50 of the
time last time i tested it and that's great news but look if you're tired of calling and you just
want your time back and what is your time worth right i'm going to show you a paid service that
works well that guarantees that gets you connected every single time so you can reach an agent to get
that pending status lifted get that glitch fixed whatever the case may be talk to a tier 2 rep so
they can get into the real deep nitty gritty stuff that might be going on with your claim
all right with that said thanks a lot for watching continue to like and subscribe and
help me grow this channel i really appreciate all this and your feedback and your comments are great
i hope to answer those as fast as i can thanks a lot appreciate you watching we'll talk soon
so here's a little trick to call someone quickly although it's still very slow so dial 833-978-2511
hit one for english and about a minute and 20 seconds later you're going to hit 132 to navigate
through the menu very quickly 99 times out of 100 they're just gonna say thank you for calling we're
too busy to take your call and then they're gonna hang up on you just redial again and again and
again now you'll always be able to use this number over and over again for free but i'm gonna show
you a paid version that helps out a lot all right guys so we're gonna go to claimer.com first thing
you'll do is enter in your phone number including the zip code the next thing is go ahead and
select california from the scroll down list now that you've done that press the call now button
this next screen is very simple you'll enter your name your email and all of your card information
press the green pay button to move on now you're going to get a success message this
success message will let you know that you should be receiving a call from 800-300-5616
all right now that you've received this phone number answer it and stay on hold
this is your call back from edd do not use their hold feature
all right they will disconnect you stay on the line until an edd rep picks up