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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: FJB who wrote (103752)	4/28/2011 2:50:08 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 224748

I think it varies by state. In CA its apparently a wages earned standard not a time standard. "...Have received enough wages during the base period to establish a claim" edd.ca.gov In NY its apparently both a time and wages issue "You must have worked and been paid wages for work in at least two calendar quarters in your base period, AND You must have been paid at least $1,600 in wages in one of the calendar quarters in your base period, AND The total wages paid to you in your base period must be one and one-half times your high quarter wages." labor.state.ny.us In Texas is a combination as well twc.state.tx.us I don't see any specific rules about not being able to file unemployment for a certain amount of time after having filed or recieved unemployment, but any time requirement, and for most people wage requirements, would in practice add in a delay before you could file again in some case. But maybe not in all that many cases. I think many people could refile quickly. You need to have worked in the relatively recent past, for either a certain amount of time, or for a certain amount of compensation or both, but if you qualify, get a job, and then quickly lose the job, the previous employment that qualified you for the first batch of unemployment, would still qualify you for the new batch. The only thing that would disqualify you is extended unemployment, where you don't have any qualifying wages. You might be able to get around that by getting a new job, before you get fired (or get yourself fired specifically to be eligible, generally your not eligible if you quit), but you would have to work for awhile if you had totally exhausted your eligibility.