unemployment insurance question

[BENSEB1]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Virginia

I know a person who got fired because he went crazy at work and yelled at his boss.

They called security and he left before security got there, and never returned, because he felt they would just fire him anyway.

He applied for unemployment insurance and got it for one week but then did not get it again.

Would they tell him if they denied any further payment or just stop?

Also, he was doing temp work for about 3 weeks the month before and would they stop it for that?

Could this mean the former employer declined to agree that he deserves or should get unemployment insurance based on his getting fired?

Or, do they just pay it out every month or something?

I wasn't sure how it works.

 

[cbg]

He would receive notification if the claim had been denied. But he would also be notified if the claim had been approved. He would be notified if there was to be a hearing. One way or another, he'd be notified.

However, someone whose claim has been approved does not receive payments every week automatically.

He has to EVERY WEEK complete a form (which can be paper, online, or even done by phone depending on your state) declaring that he remains unemployed, that he made the number of job contacts that his state requires (it varies) and that he was available to work, had work been available. If he fails to do this, no check will be sent for that week.

There are any number of possibilities with the facts we have. We have no way of knowing if the employer declined to contest so the claim automatically went to him; whether the employer contested but the UI commission ruled in your friend's favor; whether the employer contested and that's why payments stopped until there is a hearing (in which case yes, he would be notified); whether the claim was approved but your friend failed to submit the forms for subsequent payments; or what.

I'll tell you one thing, if I had an employee who "went crazy and yelled at the boss" and then walked off the job and never came back, I'd contest. And if the decision went against me, I'd appeal. And I rarely contest unemployment for my employees; I've opted not to contest claims where the UI office denied it anyway because it was so clearly not a valid reason for benefits to be approved.

What your friend needs to do is contact the UI office on Monday and ask them what's going on. No one else knows what's going on (the crystal ball got broken last week )