Sort of different problem with unemployment extension in California (collect, file, receive)

[psiegel]

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[SIZE=3]I hope someone can help me with this. My husband worked for the Census in 2010. The job ended in Aug. or Sep. of 2010 and he waited to file for unemployment until Jan. 2011. He received $360 a week for 26 weeks. Instead of receiving the letter stating that if he were eligible for extended benefits he would be notified, he received a continued claim form which has a claim beginning date of 12-28-08 and an ending date of 12-26-09. On this claim he receives $135 a week. I also worked for the Census last year and I get $173 a week. When I filed for the extension and continue to receive the same amount even though I also had a previous claim. Can this be appealed? The Census was a government job and we had to file for federal unemployment. When my husband called EDD he was told that the claim from '08 was his "parent" claim and he would continue to receive $135 through the extensions. What happens to the claim opened in Jan 2011 when edd reopens claim from 2008 for 1st extension? Thanks to anyone who can offer some insight.[/SIZE]

[Ariadne22]

Originally Posted by psiegel

I hope someone can help me with this. My husband worked for the Census in 2010. The job ended in Aug. or Sep. of 2010 and he waited to file for unemployment until Jan. 2011. He received $360 a week for 26 weeks. Instead of receiving the letter stating that if he were eligible for extended benefits he would be notified, he received a continued claim form which has a claim beginning date of 12-28-08 and an ending date of 12-26-09. On this claim he receives $135 a week. I also worked for the Census last year and I get $173 a week. When I filed for the extension and continue to receive the same amount even though I also had a previous claim. Can this be appealed? The Census was a government job and we had to file for federal unemployment. When my husband called EDD he was told that the claim from '08 was his "parent" claim and he would continue to receive $135 through the extensions. What happens to the claim opened in Jan 2011 when edd reopens claim from 2008 for 1st extension? Thanks to anyone who can offer some insight.

Assuming Congress extends unemployment legislation which expires the end of this year, your husband should be able to eventually collect his tier benefits from the January 2011 claim provided he is not eligible for another new state claim at that time. If there is no Congressional extension, he will be able to exhaust whatever Tier he is claiming on December 31, 2011 - whether it be from Claim 1 or Claim 2, but nothing beyond that.

If a new state claim is opened in January, the tiers from the Jan 2011 claim will lost unless he has begun collecting on them before the end of his current benefit year and Congress extends the EUC legislation.

The parent claim issue is discussed repeatedly on this board. If your husband began drawing EUC benefits on that 2008 claim, that claim is considered his parent claim and under federal law those benefits must be exhausted before he can collect EUC benefits on any subsequent claim. All the states are handling multiple claim issues in this manner. It is not worth your while to appeal - you will get nowhere on this. EUC money is federal money and the states cannot determine the order in which they will pay these benefits.

The reason your current benefits did not revert to your previous claim might be due to

(1) you were not eligible for EUC benefits on your first claim,

(2) you never collected EUC benefits on that claim prior to the benefit year end, or

(3) you had exhausted them.