Relocating unemployment help pleaseeeeeee (collect, file, receive, apply)

[babii_t_619]

So I currently stay in FloridaI'm moving to California in a month I applied for unemployment benefit in Florida Unemployment makes no more than 275 a week California max is 450 even though I already applied for Florida unemployment benefits can I go ahead and apply for California I haven't received anything yet from Unemployment in Florida just a letter on what I will receive and I feel like I will get more if I'd apply to California can I do that

[2nd trick op]

My guess is that you have two chances -- slim and none! If you do have any grounds at all, I'm pretty sure that California would have to "carry the ball", since Florida isn't going to want to pay out more dollars that won't be spent in-state.

Most state programs do allow for "partial Unemployment"; that means, if you work a part-time job, the Unemployment claim is reduced, but not by as much as if you weren't working at all. And the unused portion of each week's claim is carried forward, so you can collect for more weeks than would be the case of you took the maximum each week and exhausted the claim earlier.

[Rabrrita]

Do you have California nexus for unemployment? That would mean do you have any connection to employment in California prior to being unemployed that would provide a connection to California's unemployment benefits. If you worked outside California, lived outside California, applied outside California, and only are moving to California after being unemployed, you have no nexus and California would not pay you anything. The exception is if you are leaving the military.

[Ariadne22]

Originally Posted by babii_t_619

So I currently stay in Florida. I'm moving to California in a month I applied for unemployment benefit in Florida Unemployment makes no more than 275 a week California max is 450 even though I already applied for Florida unemployment benefits can I go ahead and apply for California I haven't received anything yet from Unemployment in Florida just a letter on what I will receive and I feel like I will get more if I'd apply to California can I do that

At present, California will be using a base period of either:

• April 1, 2014 - March 31, 2015; or
• July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015

If you have no California wages in either base period, CA won't pay you a benefit.

[2nd trick op]

I'm not 100% certain on this one, but drawing from experience in Pennsylvania (I worked for the Pennsylvania Department of Labor Unemployment bureau for a short time in 2009) if the initial claim is filed in California and no California wages are documented, the claim will then be forwarded to Florida, and Florida rules would apply.

[babii_t_619]

thanks everybody for the advice is just a friend of mine moved to Florida from New Jersey and he hasn't worked in Florida and he applied for Unemployment out here and he got it so I thought I had to go by your location I mean where you live at because I feel like Unemployment goes also go by the cost of living and its going to cost more to live in California then Florida

[ocngypz]

Your benefit rate regardless of where you move to........will be based upon the state in which you worked.

You will not receive CA benefit rates.

[Rabrrita]

Originally Posted by babii_t_619

thanks everybody for the advice is just a friend of mine moved to Florida from New Jersey and he hasn't worked in Florida and he applied for Unemployment out here and he got it so I thought I had to go by your location I mean where you live at because I feel like Unemployment goes also go by the cost of living and its going to cost more to live in California then Florida

Not sure how they did that, but they messed up as Florida's benefits are horrible compared to New Jersey's. We always try to get a person to file anywhere but Florida if there's a remote chance they can get benefits elsewhere, but their bed to sleep on.

[Chyvan]

Amazing that someone from NJ would brag about getting FL claim. Serves him right if that's really what happened.

[Ariadne22]

Originally Posted by babii_t_619

thanks everybody for the advice is just a friend of mine moved to Florida from New Jersey and he hasn't worked in Florida and he applied for Unemployment out here

and he got it so I thought I had to go by your location I mean where you live at because I feel like Unemployment goes also go by the cost of living and its going to cost more to live in California then Florida

By "out here" you mean he applied TO the State of New Jersey for benefits while living in FL. People do this all the time. Move to another state after a job loss and apply for benefits from the state where they worked and to which wages were reported.

FL will not pay when wages are not in its database.

Since NJ pays 60% of average weekly wage for 26 weeks up to $646/wk - vs. FL's paltry $275 for about 14 weeks, it would a pitiful shame if by some fluke FL is paying the benefit.

I don't believe it.

Ask your friend which state is paying his benefit, through which state he is filing his weekly claims, what his weekly benefit is, and for how long.

If, by some remote chance, he is receiving a FL benefit - well, my condolences.