Unemployment Insurance Questions

Gilligan

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PREMO Member
Thanks Awpitt. My reading of the paperwork said benefits are paid based on the claim application date which for me was 4/22.
So we still have two answers...good grief. Thing is..why would they require me to certify the layoff date if the layoff date was not the one that matterd?
 

Gilligan

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PREMO Member
From the MD unemployment FAQ page:

Eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits cannot be determined until you actually file an initial claim. If you are unemployed or working part-time, file your claim as soon as possible, as your eligibility begins the week in which you file your claim. Your claim becomes effective the Sunday of the week during which you apply for benefits.

Dammit SGI....I tole ya you shoulda applied earlier.




Actually..I told everyone to hold off to see if we could get the PPP or EILD loans. Then I threw in the towel after a couple weeks...
 

Bann

Doris Day meets Lady Gaga
PREMO Member
I had like $3000 on the debit card before I ever received it. :crazy:

You'll get an email from "MD UI Benefits Debit Card " when funds are added to your account. That will reflect the extra $600/week.

So you'll have a nice chunk of dough once you get your card.
I got a letter saying that the card is in the mail, but never an email except the ones to let me know how easy the MD DOL is making everything for us now.
 

Bann

Doris Day meets Lady Gaga
PREMO Member
I had like $3000 on the debit card before I ever received it. :crazy:

You'll get an email from "MD UI Benefits Debit Card " when funds are added to your account. That will reflect the extra $600/week.

So you'll have a nice chunk of dough once you get your card.
Probably $4000 to $5000! :lol:

What has this taught me? It's a good thing to plan ahead. If anyone *ever says anything to me for the rest of my life about planning ahead, they're going to get the stink eye. :lol:

I can take care of myself and don't need an uncle sugar, government or otherwise to pay my monthly bills or to put food on my table. :getdown:
 

Bann

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PREMO Member
🤷 They haven't as of yet told me to go back and certify for those earlier weeks.

SGI , I've lost track of everyone else's experiences - do you have your account set up on the Beacon site? You can file those past weeks now, I think. Not sure, but maybe 1 a day until you're caught up.
 

Bann

Doris Day meets Lady Gaga
PREMO Member
From the MD unemployment FAQ page:



Dammit SGI....I tole ya you shoulda applied earlier.




Actually..I told everyone to hold off to see if we could get the PPP or EILD loans. Then I threw in the towel after a couple weeks...

You still get paid for the week you're off. Most people get paid weekly or bi-weekly, so there's not a "waiting" period per se.
 

Gilligan

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PREMO Member
Wait... you drank beer because you couldn't get the system to work, you drank beer when waiting on the system to work and now you get beer because the system worked. That sounds like alcohol abuse to me.
?? Where's the abuse?? All I see in your [accurate] description is something bordering on a perfect methodology.
 

Gilligan

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PREMO Member
You know I find most disturbing about this whole process?..The amount of personal information the DocuSign app had on me.

They ask you a few questions to verify who you are to begin with...and then hit you with a long list of multiple-choice questions about your past. Past addresses..vehicles you might have owned...companies you might have owned...or worked for...and so on. In some of them, the correct answer was "None of the above" but in most cases they had the correct answer in the list of options. Scary...considering both the scope the questions covered as well as how far back in time some of them went. ?? That tells me they have access to a wide array of non-public records (non-public, meaning you or I Joe Blow or Jean Blow can't access them for other than our own) such as those in the MVA.
 

DaSDGuy

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Wait... you drank beer because you couldn't get the system to work, you drank beer when waiting on the system to work and now you get beer because the system worked. That sounds like alcohol abuse to me.
He drank it, he didn't spill it. That would be alcohol abuse.
 

awpitt

Main Streeter
So we still have two answers...good grief. Thing is..why would they require me to certify the layoff date if the layoff date was not the one that matterd?

I can only speak for my son's situation. He didn't apply right away because we waited for the layoff letter to come. He applied mid-April and when the money started coming, he was paid back to the 2nd of April which was the layoff date on his letter.
 
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Gilligan

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PREMO Member
I can only speak for my son's situation. He did apply right away because we waited for the layoff letter to come. He applied mid-April and when the money started coming, he was paid back to the 2nd of April which was the layoff date on his letter.

I'm going to have to go with the information on their web site; copy of which I posted above. If it turns out to be different/better...then great.
 

Chris0nllyn

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I'm going to have to go with the information on their web site; copy of which I posted above. If it turns out to be different/better...then great.


Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA): The PUA program provides up to 39 weeks of benefits, which are available retroactively starting with weeks of unemployment beginning on or after January 27, 2020, and ending on or before December 31, 2020.
https://www.dllr.state.md.us/employment/uicaresfaqs.pdf
 
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