I'm wondering if I have been short changed...

by AJ
(California)

Hello,

I applied for unemployment on the internet and disclosed that I was making 400 dollars a month working part time, one day a week, 100 dollars per day.

So, when I received the bi weekly papers I would enter all the answers to the questions asked without adding the two hundred I made for those to weeks, four hundred for the month, since I already gave that info on my original application on the internet when I filed.

I applied around feb. of 09 and lost this part time job at around august. I was sent around I think almost 4,000 from edd at around august because they never sent me anything even though they qualified me and finally (took me this long to get a hold of them) I received all that was due to me at up un till around august.

The thing I'm wondering about is, they kept sending me the rest of my bi weekly paperwork to fill out past august 09 but since I lost the part time job, shouldn't I be receiving more then 800 I was getting up untill august? I'm still getting 800, and am wondering if I should be getting 1,200 since I lost the part time job?

And I can't get a hold of no one at edd since its just a message and no one picks up...

Thanks for your time

AJ


Hi AJ,

GOOD GOD!! I hope you haven't gotten a hold of the EDD yet.

If you filed a claim .. told them you still had a part time job, but then didn't report those earnings when you filed .. I'd call that fraud.

I've never heard that the unemployment department gives partial unemployment without requiring you to report earnings in every single week you file.

Hope all goes well for you, but I suspect that one day you are going to get an overpayment notice.