Hey guys, it's Ginny Silver.
For those of you who collected Pua, there is an important
step that you need to take care of with the California Edd
if they ask you to do so, the Edd recently issued a statement
that due to federal regulations, there are required to collect
documentation, substantiating any claims that you made on
your application that you were self employed prior to the
Pandemic, or that you had a promise to start a job which
was canceled due to COVID.
Now the Edd stated that they will begin sending out these
notices starting on November 10, so I'm going to give you
a full walk through of the process needed in order to submit
that documentation to the Edd so that you know exactly what
to expect.
Now, this process is important, so I know that Pua has ended
and many of you don't want to do additional steps with the
Edd. But if you fail to comply and you do not provide that
documentation that the Edd needs, then they may issue you
an overpayment notice because you didn't prove those claims
on your application.
Now, when you log in to UI online at the very top area where
it is noted as action required in yellow, you are going to
notice that it will say you need to upload documents.
Some claimants may receive a message now, some claimants
may receive a text message and email notification or a letter
in the mail, but others are not receiving any of those additional
notifications and simply have this waiting in UI online.
So please continue to check your dashboard regularly if you
don't yet see it.
Now, once you click on that Upload Documents link, you're
going to be brought to the screen.
This lets you know that if you do not provide the required
documentation, you may have to repay any benefits determined
to be an overpayment, and it may be subject to a 30% penalty
if they determine that you intentionally gave false information
or withheld information to receive benefits.
Next, they state that if your documents meet the federal
requirements, they will send you a notice confirming your
availability, and if they determine that you are not eligible
for benefits and they will send you a notice of determination.
Now, if they send you a notice of determination, you can
then appeal that decision.
So if you disagree with that, you can appeal that decision
and you can try to get an over payment waiver.
If that applies to you.
Next, you're going to click the blue button that says Upload
Employment Documents.
Upon clicking that button, you will then be brought to this
screen. Now the Edd provides a list here of documentation
that you could choose to upload in order to verify your self
employment, employment, or potential employment.
They state also that this list is not comprehensive, and
they will accept other documents as proof for self employment.
They state here that you can upload state or federal employer
identification numbers, business licenses, tax returns, business
receipts, or invoices signed affidavits.
Verifying your self employment contracts or agreements or
bank statements from a business account that shows claim
and selfemployment.
If you're trying to verify that you had planned to begin
selfemployment, they state that you can upload a business
license, state or federal employer identification number,
written business plans or lease agreements.
If you're trying to prove traditional employment, you can
upload paycheck stubs earnings and leave statements or WTO.
And if you're trying to prove that you're going to begin
traditional employment, but that job was cancelled, you can
provide letters of offering of employment or a statement
or affidavit with the employer's name and contact information.
Verifying an offer of employment.
To prepare your documents, you need to make sure that they
are clear and readable so that the Edd can actually verify
using the documentation provided.
They state that you can scan the documents or take a picture
with your mobile device.
The maximum file size is 25 megabytes and up to 20 attachments.
In total, multiple documents may be included as one single
attachment. Acceptable documents include JPEG, TIFF, PNG,
GIF, and PDF.
Now the next step is going to be to click next to upload
your documents, but once you click next, you only have 30
minutes to upload your documents, so please make sure that
you do not click this next button until you're ready to actually
upload those documents.
So once you click upload your documents, you're going to
be taken to a DocuSign page and this is going to be custom
tailored to your own unique claim.
Your notice may have been received on a different date than
this particular notice.
Now the Edd will issue you a 90 day timeframe after receipt
of your now this is the place where you want to verify the
specific year of documents that you are going to need to
send in.
Each letter for each different claim is going to have a different
effective date here.
So do not go based on what this sample shows, make sure that
you read carefully your own unique letter.
To find what year of documents you must send in for your
unique claim, you're going to click Start at the top and
the next it's going to take you down to step one.
They're going to ask you, do you have documents to upload?
If you have documents to upload, then you're going to go
down to step two.
You will be asked how many documents you would like to upload
and you can simply select one document or however many you
are submitting.
Click the paper clip icon and then you'll be able to upload
that document.
The last step is to go down to step three, and you will be
asked to provide a signature on the DocuSign form.
Lastly, you're going to be shown a confirmation on screen
showing that you properly submitted and completed the DocuSign
as well as uploaded your document.
Now, this is a confirmation that it was submitted.
This is not approval of those documents yet.
So next, you are going to wait on the Edd to review that
documentation, and then they will issue you a notice letting
you know that it was approved.
Okay, you guys, I hope that was helpful.
Please let me know in the comments down below, if you have
received this notice yet today, or if you are expecting to
receive this notice and it hasn't has not yet arrived.