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After your ex-husband was signed up for unemployment and receiving benefits, he later received a commission check from his former employer. A large one. Even if he had reported this, it wouldn't have affected his unemployment insurance situation one bit. Not all incomes are considered disqualifying. Remember unemployment insurance is not based on the amount of money a person has or makes or is living on, it is how much he made working for wages this week. So if he receives a check for work he did some time ago, that is not going to be wages he earned by working during the week it was paid to him.
In other words, absolutely no affect on his claim. So if you reported this, they might have investigated it, they will never tell you if they did or not, but in any case, it wouldn't cut him off the benefits.
As far as doing freelance or commission only work, this may or may not be disqualifying. If you called and reported that he was doing this, they probably have looked into it, done an investigation on the claim, but have likely decided that the type of income he might be making with this freelancing is not includable, or that it is and he is reporting it as they recommend. In any case, it hasn't cut him off his unemployment, apparently. This is all you can tell from where you are looking at it.
If you feel he has come into a large amount of money and should be forced to pay you more than an amount based on his unemployment insurance only, this cannot be dealt with through the unemployment system. They are not, as I said, an income based program, and having other income, even inheriting a fortune or winning the lottery will not affect his unemployment insurance claim, though it may definitely affect the amount of child support he is ordered to pay you.
In other words, absolutely no affect on his claim. So if you reported this, they might have investigated it, they will never tell you if they did or not, but in any case, it wouldn't cut him off the benefits.
As far as doing freelance or commission only work, this may or may not be disqualifying. If you called and reported that he was doing this, they probably have looked into it, done an investigation on the claim, but have likely decided that the type of income he might be making with this freelancing is not includable, or that it is and he is reporting it as they recommend. In any case, it hasn't cut him off his unemployment, apparently. This is all you can tell from where you are looking at it.
If you feel he has come into a large amount of money and should be forced to pay you more than an amount based on his unemployment insurance only, this cannot be dealt with through the unemployment system. They are not, as I said, an income based program, and having other income, even inheriting a fortune or winning the lottery will not affect his unemployment insurance claim, though it may definitely affect the amount of child support he is ordered to pay you.