CA EDD and working 1099

[Ariadne22]

Many states have waiting weeks. Generally, you are not paid benefits for the week in which you applied - provided you have no earnings that week. Otherwise, the following week will be unpaid. Thereafter, benefits begin. Try to get through the waiting week and then claim and be paid for another week thereafter before doing and SE work.

Thereafter, should you 'earn' too much to be paid in any given week, your claim will 'close' which requires you call CA to reopen the beginning of the following week in order to claim that week. As we've said, CA may delay payment of benefits until it conducts an investigation of why you didn't claim the previous week. That said, with continued off/on 1099 SE work, CA may not delay payment of benefits with every subsequent reopen. It will with any W2 separation.

[Chyvan]

The waiting weeks is the first week where you meet all the conditions, and you get no money for it. Means that you didn't earn too much, you looked for work, you were able and available, and you're out of work for a nondisqualifying reason.

You say "family," get the other people in the family to step up. When they earn money, it doesn't affect your UI check and you derive the full value of your labor. When you earn money, the formula is a rip off to you. It benefits the employer that put you in this mess. It really is very much like working for free.

[MacktheRedwood]

Thanks for the advice, Ariadne22 and Chyvan. I appreciate it.