unemployment

[tamwham2]

how long does someone have to work to be able to file for unemployment?

 

[China11212]

In New York it's about 26 weeks before you can claim.

 

[Shadowbunny]

In New York it's about 26 weeks before you can claim.

Is this a record for digging up an old thread? 12 years?!!

China, please don't post on long-dead threads. It's not polite.

 

[commentator]

And the information provided wasn't correct either. Twenty six weeks is usually the maximum number of weeks in a full unemployment claim, except in a few southeastern states that have actually managed lately to reduce this by a couple of weeks here and there lately. A regular state unemployment claim will never have more than 26 weeks of weekly payments in it.

But to qualify for unemployment benefits, the person has to have worked for a covered employer (one who pays unemployment insurance taxes on payroll) to have sufficient wages in the past five calendar quarters to set up a claim. This is roughly eighteen months, not including the current quarter, so a rough figure would be that the person would need to have worked out at least two quarters of covered wages within the last two years. In most states, all the wages cannot have been earned in only one of those covered quarters. So just because someone has worked for six months (26 weeks) would not have any bearing on whether or not they would have a claim to set up.

And there's really no point in figuring this out, the person who wants to know should file a claim, and they will tell him pretty quickly whether or not he can qualify to draw benefits based on work record.

 

[TheGeekess]

And the information provided wasn't correct either. Twenty six weeks is usually the maximum number of weeks in a full unemployment claim, except in a few southeastern states that have actually managed lately to reduce this by a couple of weeks here and there lately. A regular state unemployment claim will never have more than 26 weeks of weekly payments in it.

But to qualify for unemployment benefits, the person has to have worked for a covered employer (one who pays unemployment insurance taxes on payroll) to have sufficient wages in the past five calendar quarters to set up a claim. This is roughly eighteen months, not including the current quarter, so a rough figure would be that the person would need to have worked out at least two quarters of covered wages within the last two years. In most states, all the wages cannot have been earned in only one of those covered quarters. So just because someone has worked for six months (26 weeks) would not have any bearing on whether or not they would have a claim to set up.

And there's really no point in figuring this out, the person who wants to know should file a claim, and they will tell him pretty quickly whether or not he can qualify to draw benefits based on work record.

If they haven't figured it out in the twelve years since the thread was started, they've got bigger problems than this.

 

[commentator]

I agree, but I hate for a post like this to hang out there without correction, because the information provided by the necro-poster was wrong. Someone else might dig it up later and read it, just when searching "unemployment" on this site.