Hey guys, it's Ginny Silver.
Many of you are receiving California Edd request to verify
your employment status for your Pandemic Unemployment Assistance
claim. If you received UI or Pua, you may be receiving this
notification. I'm going to walk you through each individual
type of scenario and what sort of documentation you can or
should be submitting in order to have this quickly and easily
cleared, please be sure to use the Timestamp menu down below
so that you can navigate to your specific type of claim and
type of employment status.
Additional videos on this topic are also listed down below.
So if you have a question in this topic, make sure that you
view those additional videos first because they may provide
the information that you're looking for due to a change in
federal laws surrounding Pandemic unemployment assistance,
all States are required to provide additional documentation
as per Federal Guideline changes in Department of labor regulations.
California is not the only state requesting this information,
and if you do not provide it, and if you do not reply to
the Edd with it, then yes, they can issue you an overpayment
notice and have you repay benefits that you have already
received in addition to a penalty.
However, as long as your claim is legitimate, as long as
you provided no false statements and did not provide anything
inaccurate on your application and you are entitled to receive
those benefits as long as you provide the documentation asked
for, then there should be no reason for you to repay your
benefits in your UI online homepage.
You will see a notification here in the Action Required section,
which is titled you need to Upload Documents after you click
on the Upload Documents link.
Be sure to review your own individual letter as the dates
and information within this letter are custom tailored to
your own unique claim, the Edd will be asking for documentation
on your employment or self employment claims that you made
on your application, which then qualified you to receive
those unemployment benefits.
They will be asking for documents supporting the time frame
prior to your unemployment claim, which can be found in the
top area of the letter.
So be sure you check here for the date range in which you
must provide documentation.
For now, they state here that you do not need to provide
documentation for the entire date range, but rather sometime
in that range.
But it is best to provide as much possible documentation
as you can.
So if you have documents for that entire date range, then
definitely send them over.
The Edd provides a list showing what documents they state
are approved in order to provide documentation on each different
type of verification that they may be trying to obtain from
you. They also state that this list is not comprehensive
and that you may be able to provide different documents outside
of these in order to be approved in order to avoid any snags
in the process.
Please be sure to provide as many documents as you have available.
Now, many of you are wondering if there is something wrong
if you have not yet received this notice, do you need to
call the Edd to check the status or are you all set and you
do not need to worry about this?
If you have received Pua at any point in time, including
receiving Pua as a brief extension for unemployment benefits,
then you should still check back to your UI online account
for this notification.
There currently is no completion date stated by the Edd for
sending out these notices, so please do continue to check
your UI online, your email, your mail, and your text messages
to see if you're required to provide this documentation for
the purpose of this video, I am going to include items listed
in bold anywhere you see something listed in bold.
This is something the Edd specifically stated on the approved
documents list.
However, they did state on that list that the list was not
comprehensive and that other documents may be approved.
Any items that are not in bold are my own additional suggestions
for things that may be included.
But I want you to understand that these were not specifically
listed on EDD's list in general, provide as many documents
as you can.
If you receive this notice and you were self employed, you
will need to provide documentation to prove yourself employment
prior to your unemployment claim.
You must provide documents that prove yourself employed at
some point within the dates listed on your own unique notice.
So what documents could you possibly provide?
Try providing as many documents as you can to avoid any potential
issues. Tax Returns Schedule CS or 1099 Business License
Fictitious Business Name Statement Seller's Permit Secretary
of State Filing Articles of Organization Ein Number Filings
Professional licenses, certifications or filing Registrations
Written Business plans, Business Bank statements, Business
invoices receipts, contracts.
For those of you that have received this notice and who were
self employed, you may be wondering, Do I need to upload
the entire tax return?
The Edd stated that they would accept tax returns, but they
also stated that their list was not comprehensive.
A Schedule C is the part of the tax return that shows everything
in regards to your self employment.
It gives your business or sole proprietor information.
It gives the amount of gross income as well as your expenses
and deductions.
This should be fine to provide, but my Add contact did state
to send as many documents as you have, so it is up to you
if you decide that it is best to send the full tax return
or simply the Schedule C.
Many of you are also wondering if 199 are okay to submit
back in the winter when Edd was verifying how much you earned
and asking for income verification.
They did not accept 1099 because 1099 only showed gross income
and unemployment claims are based on net income.
I asked my contact at the Edd to confirm that sending a 1099
was acceptable and he did confirm that.
Yes, a 1099 is another example of the type of document that
could be used to prove work history.
Next, what if you received this notice?
You were self employed, but your business was cash only.
The IRS requires self employed net income in the amount of
$400 and higher to be claimed on a tax return.
So what documentation should you provide?
You should provide your tax return, your business license
for your business contracts, invoices and receipts for those
of you who did receive this notice, who were self employed
and who did not file a tax return even though you did have
net income over the amount of that $400 threshold, what do
you provide?
You could file a late tax return to fix that filing issue
with the IRS and then provide your return.
You could provide a business license.
Fictitious Business Name Statement Seller's Permit You could
provide invoices contracts, receipts, or assigned affidavit
for those of you who received this notice and you plan to
be self employed but did not yet start or profit from your
business. You must provide documentation of your plans and
efforts to become self employed or start your own business.
Documentation must be from within the date range specified
in your notice.
So what should you provide?
Business License Fictitious Business Name Statement Seller's
Permit Ein Number Filing Articles of Organization Secretary
of State Filing Professional licenses, Certifications registrations,
Commercial lease, Business plan, business bank accounts,
receipts for business expenses for startup and your tax return
if it includes things associated with your business.
Next, for those of you that have received this notice, but
you were traditionally employed as a W two employee, you
will need to provide documentation of your work history for
employment within the date range specified on your notice.
Many of you may be receiving this notice because you received
peace for a very brief period of time which was applied to
you as an extension during a time when the PEUC extension
lapsed. What documentation can you provide?
You may provide a tax return W two s paycheck stubs or earning
and leave statements next for those of you who receive this
notice and you had a job offer which was canceled due to
the pandemic, you will need to provide documentation of the
job offer and that it was canceled due to the pandemic for
the date ranges specified in your notice.
What documentation should you provide?
You could provide a job offer, letter or email or other form
of correspondence wherein a job was offered correspondence
from the employer, letting you know that the business was
closed or not hiring due to the pandemic.
A signed affidavit or statement from the employer verifying
the offer of employment.
For those of you who do not have a written job offer, contact
the employer and ask them to write a signed affidavit that
they offered you a job which was rescinded due to the Pandemic,
have them sign it, date it and include the employer's business
and contact information next.
For those of you that received this notice and you had planned
to return to the workforce but couldn't do so due to the
Pandemic, you will need to provide documentation of your
intent to return to the workforce.
My contact at the Edd stated that a person who planned to
be employed must prove that employment plan regardless of
the reason the plan did not materialize.
Edd is looking for information about what the person was
doing for employment or self employment prior to filing the
claim. So what should you provide copies of your correspondence
with potential employers, including resumes applications
and emails, copies of job board LinkedIn or other professional
profiles in order to search for work showing creation dates
within your required date range.
And you can also try submitting a signed Affidavit for those
of you who received this notice and you had to stay home
with your children due to school closure which was caused
by the Pandemic, you will need to provide documentation of
your prior employment or your plans to enter the workforce
or self employment or plans to be self employed and documentation
that your children were home due to the pandemic with you
as the primary caretaker.
What can you provide in this situation?
You can provide a job offer, letter or proof that you were
or were trying to be self employed previously.
Correspondence with an employer resumes Applications profiles
created to attempt to join the workforce, notices and correspondence
from the school about the closure or the distance learning
requirement, or you can try a signed affidavit.
Remember to send as many documents as you can for those of
you who received this notice and you are neither employed
nor self employed prior to the Pandemic, you will need to
provide documentation of your intent to enter the workforce
which was impacted by the Pandemic.
The Pua program was implemented to assist those who were
working or about to start working and could not do to the
Pandemic. So a person who planned to be employed must prove
that employment plan, regardless of the reason that the plan
did not materialize is what my Edd contact has informed me.
In this scenario.
Documentation which may work could potentially be copies
of your correspondence with a potential employer resumes
applications, emails, copies of job boards, LinkedIn, and
other professional profiles to search for work showing the
creation date within your date range and signed affidavits.