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Originally Posted by killawhale
Been collecting EDD for about a year in CA. On the end of tier 2 & just got my new Insurance Award letter and I lost about $300 from what I was getting weekly before from about $350 to $58 weekly. The letter says I have wages in dec 2011 (around 1200)but those wages were from my last month of work in sept 2011. I have not worked or earned wages since sept 2011. Is a big drop off from weekly pay normal? or should I be filing a new claim for the new year?
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California has already filed a new claim for you. Standard operating procedure at benefit year-end - which is why you received the letter.
So, you lost your job in September 2011, but didn't begin collecting benefits until March 2012, is that correct? Why the six-month lag?
The six-month lag between your job loss and the date you filed your claim
may have created eligibility for a new claim. Normally, had you filed immediately on losing your job, you would now get another letter from CA stating that, under Section 1277, you do not have sufficient earnings (because you had not worked) for a new claim and that your federal extension benefits are not affected.
Since the DE2011 earnings were reported before you filed for benefits in March 2012, CA may recognize these as earnings for a new claim.
In that case,
CA, under its Deferred New Claim Program (DNCP), will allow you to continue to collect what remains of your Tier benefits from the 2012 claim before paying you from the 2013 claim.
Actually, this new claim is a blessing in disguise, as you can continue to collect on the old claim and have a new claim to collect on, later, as well. You may want to leave well enough alone and see if your next letter is about the DNCP program.
If you do not get a letter from CA on invalidation and/or DNCP, call CA. Good suggestions on last couple of pages of this thread:
https://www.city-data.com/forum/unemp...alifornia.html
Let us know how this is resolved.
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