Trailing Spouse Unemployment (New York, York: insurance, moving to, required)

[kristinism]

I see that there are a lot of posts on this forum about this issue, but I'm still going to ask this question:

My husband and I moved to New York from Illinois because he received a promotion and with it his job required him to work full time at the headquarters in New York. Needless to say, I had to leave my job in Illinois. From everything I've read I should qualify for unemployment, because both of these states allow trailing spouse as a just cause for leaving a job. My question is do I file in Illinois or New York? If its Illinois, what will happen to my former employer?

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks in advance!

[sdcity]

no idea but I would guess illinois. You paid them unemployment insurance, so makes sense they would pay you it back. Sorta like saying I switched from geico to state farm, and I was in accident while in geico, who pays me for damages?

Unemployment is paid by the state. So your employer doesn't get hit, they already paid unemployment insurance for you, in which you paid some of it.

This is just my guess as I've never been in that situation.

[kristinism]

Thanks for the help!

[jbosch]

Originally Posted by kristinism

Thanks for the help!

Once you actually do the process, can you reply back? Ive always wondered that issue and would like to know to consider moving to another state in the future (and planning that at least one of us may get unemployment for a short while)