Can I get Partial unemployment benefits?

Dec 30, 2010

Pay cut two months ago and now hours reduced Can I collect partial unemployment benefits
by: Anonymous

Pay cut two months ago and now hours reduced Can I collect partial unemployment benefits?

In the last two months, my pay was reduced almost $400 a month. Tuesday, I was just informed that I will now work a 20 hour work week and I am traveling over 50 miles a day. This will result in another $500 reduction. I cannot afford to be cut $900 a month. He will not lay me off. Can I collect unemployment.
Thank you for your help.

Hi,

I can't tell you whether the Florida formula for partial benefits will work to allow you to collect a partial amount now that your hours have also been reduced (that is what should make you eligible for "partially unemployed").

But, I do know you should at least file a claim to find out or email me the numbers and I'd be happy to help you figure this out.

The biggest problem with collecting Florida's partial benefits is that the maximum weekly benefit amount, regardless of how much one earns, is $275 a week and that the weekly earning disregard is only 8 times the federal minimum wage. (8x 7.25 = 58.00) which is just slightly over 20 percent.

Although I have seen a Florida hearing decision which found a 17 percent reduction in pay to be a substantial change to the conditions of employment and provided good cause for quitting, but a person also has to consider the maximum for total unemployment could very well result in even less to live on because the maximum benefit amount equates to $6.87 an hour .. less than the federal minimum wage.

In other words if you are working 20 hours per week and earning $13.74 an hour which is the equivalent of the max benefit .. you'd be better off to apply for the partials because FL is supposed to disregard 58 dollars before reducing the benefit amount dollar for dollar for the remaining earnings.

I hope you see where I'm going with this because I honestly hate to hear from people having to go through the appeal process for a quit with good cause before they can get even measly benefits.

You can lose the farm in the interim.

It's definitely, one of those predicaments I think is a rock and a hard place.

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