hey everyone wanted to give you an update on the newly announced meuc or the mixed
earner unemployment compensation program that edd announced last week on the 25th
what this program does is for those of you with regular ui or peuc claims this allows
you to potentially become eligible for an extra one hundred dollar kicker on top of your regular
ui and your three hundred dollar a week peuc claim that you currently have now this is very important
this does not apply to any of those of you that have pua claims what this program does is that if
you had w-2 wages and had self-employment income you will be eligible for this 100 week bonus this
bonus program goes all the way back retroactively okay back to december 27th and is payable all the
way up through september 4th so there's a good chunk here there's 36 weeks total for a total of 3
600 at the stake here but the thing is is that the requirements for eligibility are fairly strict so
you just want to make sure you know what those are and i'll hopefully make this pretty simple for you
so what this is is that you have to be currently receiving at least one dollar per week in regular
ui benefits which hopefully you are and you're also receiving your 300 a week peuc
benefits the thing that you also must have is you must have made at least five thousand dollars
in self-employment income and this is net after taxes so guys if you report your and you have
to do this you in the state of california report your on your self-employment income the thing is
is that many of us write off a lot of our expenses okay and i understand why we do this because we
don't be taxed on that income the problem is is that if your income was on your schedule c listed
on your net is below five thousand dollars you will not qualify for this extra hundred dollars a
week there's a way around that and i'll share that in another video that's called doing an amended
taxes if that's an option for you so making sure we know a little bit more about this mee
this meuc program what this is going to do is that they are as we speak today on june 30th
they're actually emailing people that have eligible claims within the system within edd right
now they're not telling us how fast those emails are going out and those emails are actually your
personal invitation to apply for the meuc program okay and one thing is this don't share your email
invitation if you get one with other people because they're literally specifically sent
to specific individuals and it's a very small criteria that's going to fit for all of you guys
but being the case if you get this email it's going to have instructions we haven't seen
the screenshots yet so we don't know exactly what documents they're looking for but they're going to
be looking for you to prove your self-employment income and that's actually really easy to do
because again you filed your business taxes for self-employment so you'll just most likely need
to have that schedule c that lists out all of your gross revenue lists out all of your taxes
lists out any you know expenses that you might have incurred during that tax period year
and then hopefully that line will also show you a net income above five thousand dollars now
if that's the case you're actually in good shape because again you've got your w-2 wages you've got
5 000 or more with self-employment and this most likely means that once they get that documentation
uploaded into your portal and they'll be requesting that through that email that you'll get
you will be found eligible uh once they make that determination and they will retroactively
back pay you all the way back to december 27th if you were eligible back going going going then the
good news also is that you know depending on how long it takes to you know process these claims
these meuc claims they will also pay you up until september 4th if you you know currently still need
those benefits so this is a great way to get again that 3600 that's at stake unfortunately
this doesn't apply to everyone and granted we need to make sure that you're not on pua you're
not going to be a part of this program and that you also have that five thousand dollars of net
income all right so that's a great program to get us started off um there's going to be a quite a
few questions i know about from this coming from the comments and i really hope you guys will
send me some screenshots of what you're seeing so i can share that with the community anytime
you guys send those make sure you blur out any personal information so i don't share that what
we're looking to do is to help other people that have some other questions right that and we need
to see those screenshots if you can so my email is down in the description at the bottom feel free to
email me anything you have questions wise and certainly those screenshots will always be helpful
the other thing that we're seeing here that's going to be a problem with this is that
they're not stating how fast everyone's going to get those application emails so they just started
today on june 30th it could be weeks we don't know hopefully it's faster this is an automated system
that we're trying to work with here but what i'm suggesting is this if you don't get an email by
let's say you know the end of this week or even going into next i would suggest that you call if
you think that you're eligible because again you have those w-2 wages you've got that five thousand
dollars in self-employment income and you think you're eligible and you're looking for that email
you want to be on top of this right you want to call them and you want to ask hey guys like do
you see where my email for this application is because you do have to apply if you don't apply
they're not going to give you the benefits all right so this is going to be some action on
our part that we need to take but we've got to get that email from them in order to take that
action so i recommend that you do call edd if you haven't seen anything by the end of the week
we'll be monitoring this closely to see how fast these are going out hopefully you guys
all get this really quickly but the thing is is that we've seen how sometimes these
rollouts can be slow and a lot of people do get missed so this is why i do suggest that you call
look when it comes to calling i know there's a lot of options out there i'm going to show
you a couple options here at the end of the video i'll show you the free way of calling
i've used it myself it's actually a fast way to get through you get through the menu pretty
quick and i've used it and it works about 50 of the time so there's an option there i'm also
going to talk about the other option of using a paid service which gets you guaranteed through
every single time that you need to uh the only thing we can't help on that end is that you know
sometimes there's some disconnects that's happened pretty commonly with edd when you're on the phone
while you're waiting or you're being transferred between tier 1 tier 2 agents so i want you to know
that options available too and i'll demo those i hope this information helped if you have any claim
specific questions let me know in the comment section below i'll answer those as best i can
please continue to like and subscribe it really helps the channel lets me know that you guys
are appreciating the content and i'm helping you guys out and yeah guys be well 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 receive 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