My
California Unemployment Insurance Benefits have run out, what do I do to extend
my benefits?
Finally, Some Quick
Answers about Unemployment Extensions to UI Benefits
We
have three clear cut methods to use when applying for extended unemployment
benefits in California
Keep
those EDD checks arriving for up to and over 26 weeks
Unemployment
benefits in California typically last only 26 weeks after you have been laid
off. Most people are so shaken up from their layoff experience, they are
not made aware of this till the 26th week of their unemployment benefit
period. Seriously, you've just lost your job and everything you know, all
you want is some time and some peace so you can figure out your next
step. The problem is in today's job market, landing the next job may take
longer than expected and it becomes necessary to seek ways to extend your UI
benefits.
Recently, I was
laid off when my Fortune 500 company downsized. I started receiving
unemployment checks and they were a breath of fresh air allowing me to survive
while looking for my next job. To my dismay, the jobsearch took more than
the 26 weeks allotted by unemployment insurance and I was left hanging in the
wind without anymore cash. At first I felt pressured to take any job I
could but I decided first to try to extend my benefits. I went up a lot
of blind alley ways online and in a perpetual phone mail hell with the
California state government. Waiting on hold, infinite useless hits
in online searches were common. How could I get an unemployment insurance
extension?
Just at the point I
was ready to give up and figure out how I was going to live on zero
dollars, I remembered a worker on an assembly line that I'd supervised
back in the roaring 90s. She seemed to know a lot about all the social
welfare systems and I oftentimes was shocked at how many loopholes she and her
friends used. Some of them made me downright mad considering I was paying
for this stuff. The story that stuck in my head was how she planned
to get UI benefits after she QUIT working for me. No way I thought, you
have to get laid off. Nope she said, she was going to relocate and this
allowed her to get "relocation unemployment benefits" even if she had
quit. I didn't think much of it till HR came over after she left and told
me that we were picking up the tab for her unemployment benefits. She
unlocked a poorly known secret. These secrets were far beyond
what I knew was available because I always worked, my parents always worked and
nobody I knew up to then was on welfare of any kind. I knew she
would have some tips for my current situation.
In desperation
I called the "expert". When she picked up the phone she
was quite cheerful when she heard about the layoff. I was miffed at
first because I thought she was happy to see her supervisor down for the count
but in reality, she was excited to finally be able to show her old boss
her absolute brilliance. And brilliant she was. That girl
knew the system inside and out and that is how I learned of three ways to
extend UI.
It turns out, there
are three ways to renew and extend the time one gets unemployment benefits
in California. Unfortunately, they are not easy to find and even harder
to get information on by wallowing through the automated phone answering system
from EDD. This is because they don't want everyone rushing in and
extending their benefits who wants more money from EDD. Is it a anti
unemployment conspiracy? No, they just want you to get your act together
and get back to work. Also, the unemployment welfare office is a
classical government bureaucracy. Although it is fiscally
responsible, it creates a sense of urgency for the recipient to take any
available job during this brief initial period. They want this because
their goal is to get you employed as quickly as possible. I believe
however, that rushing into a new job out of desperation is a recipe for
misery. You need time to plan it out and figure out what you want.
Therefore it may be useful to learn the methods that I discovered to extend
your UI benefits.
Take a look at your
check stub attached to your EDD check. What you will find is the amount
of money remaining on your balance. That is the amount of money left in
your EDD piggy bank. When this number goes to zero, you will receive no
more California EDD checks. The big problem with watching this number go
to zero is you have a limited amount of time to get your 26 week unemployment
benefit extension application filed. If you wait too long, it becomes
harder and harder to apply for extended benefits. You can use the appeals
process to attempt to apply after your filing windows, but it just makes your
case tougher. So don't delay, get the answers today and get paid extended
ui benefits for the next six months.
I wrote a concise
no nonsense eReport on these techniques. They are standard ways in which
the state has allowed for exceptions in the 26 week cuttoff period of
payments. In my eReport on extending your California unemployment
benefits, you'll learn:
· three ways to apply for a 26 week extension to the existing
26 weeks of unemployment checks
· the critical time windows in which you must act
· the magic words to mention to your case worker that will open up
the doors for extension
· how to effectively fight an appeal
· phrases that turn a cold social worker into a cooperative and
helpful human being
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Good luck with your
extension process. I hope my eReport helps save you some time
and frustration.