Can I get unemployment if I follow my husband to a job in colorado? (collect, file)

[missyhar]

I am following my husband to Colorado for his job. If I can't find a job right away will I qualify for unemployment in Colorado?

I know when we did the same thing in UT they wouldn't give me unemployment benefits. But it seems like I read somewhere that they would.

[thebunny]

Without knowing your state, there is no way to answer this....

[lostinca]

Originally Posted by thebunny

Without knowing your state, there is no way to answer this....

Unfortunately I think every state is different I know here in CA it wouldn't work, especially if you quit your job.

[thebunny]

Originally Posted by lostinca

Unfortunately I think every state is different I know here in CA it wouldn't work, especially if you quit your job.

Not at all true. In fact, CA is one of the states that allows you to quit and collect UI when you are quitting in order to keep the family together.

[veuvegirl]

Originally Posted by thebunny

Not at all true. In fact, CA is one of the states that allows you to quit and collect UI when you are quitting in order to keep the family together.

Wow, that is a bit crazy. I can't imagine quitting a job and moving for your S.O. job to a different state and being able to collect, seems unfair. JMHO

[Suncc49]

I doubt it... you wouldn't have any wage information on file in the state

[sinsativ]

Originally Posted by Suncc49

I doubt it... you wouldn't have any wage information on file in the state

You file in the original state, Utah, you left/worked in. Due to Medical/Family/work issues, you can collect UI for leaving a company to be with your family. Document it, and show that your husband got a letter, or request his employer to give him an offer of the job in a new area at least 50 miles or more from your previous home.

[missyhar]

Originally Posted by sinsativ

You file in the original state, Utah, you left/worked in. Due to Medical/Family/work issues, you can collect UI for leaving a company to be with your family. Document it, and show that your husband got a letter, or request his employer to give him an offer of the job in a new area at least 50 miles or more from your previous home.

thanks I will try that!

So, would the unemployment then come from UT not CO? Because when he transferred from northern UT to southern UT they would not give me the unemployment.

We just have to get out of UT as soon as we can. We hate it here.

[sinsativ]

Originally Posted by missyhar

thanks I will try that!

So, would the unemployment then come from UT not CO? Because when he transferred from northern UT to southern UT they would not give me the unemployment.

We just have to get out of UT as soon as we can. We hate it here.

You would originally file on the UTAH, website, and they will transfer the follow up to colorado to help you find a new job. Im not sure of all the requirements in UT, but if you document that his job is transferring him, you should be eligible. File, and also make sure you told your last employer why you were leaving. You have to make sure that is on file otherwise they report you just quit.

[sinsativ]

Title 35A
Utah Workforce Services Code
Chapter 4
Employment Security Act
Section 405
Ineligibility for benefits.
35A-4-405. Ineligibility for benefits.
Except as otherwise provided in Subsection (5), an individual is ineligible for benefits or for purposes of establishing a waiting period:
(1) (a) For the week in which the claimant left work voluntarily without good cause, if so found by the division, and for each week thereafter until the claimant has performed services in bona fide, covered employment and earned wages for those services equal to at least six times the claimant's weekly benefit amount.
(b) A claimant may not be denied eligibility for benefits if the claimant leaves work under circumstances where it would be contrary to equity and good conscience to impose a disqualification.
(c) Using available information from employers and the claimant, the division shall consider for the purposes of this chapter the reasonableness of the claimant's actions, and the extent to which the actions evidence a genuine continuing attachment to the labor market in reaching a determination of whether the ineligibility of a claimant is contrary to equity and good conscience.
(d) Except as provided in Subsection
(1)(e), a claimant who has left work voluntarily to accompany or follow the claimant's spouse to a new locality does so without good cause for purposes of this Subsection
(1).(e) A claimant who has left work voluntarily to accompany or follow the claimant's spouse to a new locality does so with good cause for purposes of this Subsection
(1) and is eligible to receive benefits if:
(i) the claimant's spouse is a member of the United States armed forces and the claimant's spouse has been relocated by a full-time assignment scheduled to last at least 180 days while on:
(A) active duty as defined in 10 U.S.C. Sec. 101(d)(1); or
(B) active guard or reserve duty as defined in 10 U.S.C. Sec. 101(d)(6);
(ii) it is impractical as determined by the division for the claimant to commute to the previous work from the new locality;
(iii) the claimant left work voluntarily no earlier than 15 days before the scheduled start date of the spouse's active-duty assignment; and
(iv) the claimant otherwise meets and follows the eligibility and reporting requirements of this chapter, including registering for work with the division or, if the claimant has relocated to another state, the equivalent agency of that state.