Ohio extra $600 unemployment...please help if you can (unemployment benefits, living)

[Tcice2k]

I am not able to find accurate information nor can i get through via chat or phone to get updates. The last update i saw was it was going to start this week along with back pay. I looked at my amount and its the same as always. Can ANYONE help with accurate information please?

[WeSoHood]

Not unemployed - but did you get a confirmation that your application or whatever was successful and you were approved?

The CARES Act rolled out initially to NYC and a couple other hot beds, with the rest of the nation following suite. Unemployment benefits, especially during a pandemic, are probably going to be a little more ambiguous as far as pay dates, etc.

If you really want to know - find a contact number and sit your butt down for X hours wait time and figure out. No one on here is going to help when we don't know if you even qualify or filled out everything correctly.

[Tcice2k]

What do you mean qualify??? Where i work was shutdown and ive been unemployed for 5 weeks. I know how the unemployment system works. There are not any "qualifications" for the temporary increase like there are for the stimulus check. Also i have sat my butt down for the better part of 5 days teying to get through.

I was just trying to see if i could find updated information is all, not help. I apologize i guess i misunderstood. I was desperate and figured id try where i could.
Be safe and healthy

[elvis44102]

my friend just got 4 weeks UE..only 800 added certainly no 600/week

[Saugmon]

I was off 6 weeks and it took til week 5 to start getting my money.Went back to work for 3 weeks and laid off again last week.Then my factory tossed a vacation day for memorial day and threw it off again and more phone calls/emails to renee.Took lots of waiting on the phone ,and
emails to renee but got it resolved. Again,I got denied again and spent another 3 hrs on the phone getting it straightened out monday. Mine's 480 plus the extra 600.It was all under the covid-19 tab. Renee was a godsend!!!!

[jimwen]

Well, the Cares Act is due to run out in about 3 weeks, any thoughts about what they are going to do? It's almost election time, you know TPTB are not going to forget that fact.

[dustin183]

Is it worth the time to try and get this money? Sounds like a lot of wasted time.

[BLW42284]

I was unemployed as of March 30th and didn't receive my unemployment check until the end of June. The day after I was let go, I called a little over 400 times and finally got through. I am a telemarketer for a living so making the calls was like going to work. I figured out the numbers to click to get through faster. Write down the promps each time you call. At the end of June I received my retroactive pay for everything owed. If anybody has any questions or about what I did in between to survive please feel free to reach out.