So what is the waiting week? It is your first week of being unemployed. If you lose your employment on a Friday, you obviously should wait to file until the next week as you have worked a full week and made more money than allowed. But what if you find yourself without a job on Tuesday, can you file then? Yes, it’s possible to work a partial week and still have that count towards your waiting week. Cool huh? But
please don’t delay in filing thinking you had to wait a week before even submitting a claim. You then basically lost out on that first week. It’s possible to backdate your claim to start the previous week, but that gets messy and with staff overworked now, it would be very difficult to get approved.And just because you file your claim that first week, doesn’t mean you are finished. You still have to make a reporting of your activities for the week. Depending on your state, this can be done by phone, email or on the state’s website. If you don’t claim this waiting week, then that puts a stop on your claim and can hold up your benefits. And nobody wants that to happen….
Yep it's total liberal BS!
ReplyDeleteSo, a person who went without pay for that first week they filed, never gets paid for it? Does that waiting week just stay there forever?
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ReplyDeleteMy state has this. "Waiting Week
ReplyDeleteWaiting Week is the first payable week of your claim for Unemployment Benefits. You will receive payment for the waiting week after TWC pays you three times your weekly benefit amount." So aparently, if i get payed three times i should get paid for that week afterward.
In my state The Waiting Week is really 3 weeks. Filed on the 29th of May, Then had to file on 5th of June. This was the Official Waiting Week. Filed again on the 13th so this was the real filing week. So checks are no longer mailed I have to waiting on the stupid debit card. It's the June 20th and I still do have a check but they said it's in the mail the card is anyway. Takes way too long.
ReplyDeleteGot laid off a Friday on the first week of august, then next week I'm looking for a job, all week, the week after that I realize that it won't be that easy and I file for unemployment, the first week I was laid off wasn't even mentioned in my claim and after trying to get them to backdate to my laid off date for that one week, to be considered "waiting week", they said they would only adhere to the date you CLAIM not the date you became unemployed. (FL)
ReplyDeleteafter reading above, it's says, "was to save the government money" It's not their money, If the Employer has to pay a unemployment tax, and that tax goes into a fund and that fund is then payed out as unemployment well then?? also there are lots of people that don't collect, it was twenty some years before I ever had to file now bang you don't get a week. would like to see any of those politicians try to live on my wages then go a week with out and kind of income!! It's all BS (WI)
ReplyDeleteWho is this idiot. Obviously he is so disasociated with the reguular citizens in this country that he has no idea what we are going through. Was this ultimatly only his decision or was there a vote? I've been drawing unemployment for 3 months. Was supposed to get a check last week and didn't. They said I had to refile my claim wich I did. Now I'm three weeks behind and they said ill get a check for 1 week because of the waiting week. Put this guy in prison or at least fire him.
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