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Hi! I currently live in California and my old work place burned down due to an unfortunate kitchen fire. I was a waitress and found work shortly after at another restaurant. However, my old workplace advised everyone to find work and collect unemployment as long as I was part time since California allows this.
I think I have been filling out a few weeks of my unemployment incorrectly for awhile now. I have only been entering my hours and failed to enter the tips that show up on my check at the end of two weeks. I'm worried that I will be penalized for this but no one has contacted me yet. Should I call and let them know that I have failed to enter past tips or should I just leave things be and from now on fill out my unemployment including my tips?
My problem is my new work place does not report all my tips on my paychecks, so I never know what will show up on my paystub. I do not know when to provide the tip information. Should I include it on the week that I receive my paycheck.
I'm sorry if this thread has already been made, but I'm just very worried that I'll get in some big **** over this. This is my first time collecting unemployment and I honestly don't know what I'm doing :C
You need to report your tips in the week that you receive them. This "on my paycheck" stuff is WRONG. You're supposed to report them in the week they were EARNED, not paid.
You're lucky that EDD has not contacted you. If you contact them first by a provable means, then you are in the best position to avoid a fraud penalty that is 30% tacked on to the assessed overpayment PLUS penalty weeks where even if you are eligible for UI, they don't give you your check. It's VERY expensive. If you get a fraud penalty for contacting EDD first, appeal it. Come back and we'll help you.
It's unfortunate that you're doing this kind of work, but you need to keep tabs of your tips from Sunday to Saturday, and add them up and report them on your claim form that you file for that week plus what you'd have earned hourly. It's a lot of work. This is one of the worst jobs to have on UI as is commission sales and substitute teaching.
Be careful how you say things. The more you can blame your failure on your job the better. If these are credit card tips, and you never see them, it's more excusable than if you do see them, and just didn't think it was important to write down the information.
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