China News Service, May 15 (Xinhua News Agency) reported that recently, Asa Chan, the manager of the social service department of the Chinatown Service Center in New York, said that the center's unemployment assistance application cases have increased significantly, of which 90% are Chinese.
Chen Yuancong said: "Before March, one or two cases of unemployment benefits will be seen every week. But from April 1 to May 11, we assisted 353 people, including 217 people to fill out the application form. In general, there are many W2 employee cases. There are 152 W2 application forms and about 60 self-employed application forms.
There are also two peaks in the application for unemployment benefits. The first one is from April 11 to April 15, because people started to apply for unemployment benefits at the beginning of the family order. Some people applied for the benefits after seeing others receiving unemployment benefits, causing the first wave of peak periods. The second peak comes from the California Employment Development Agency ’s opening of the application form on April 28 for self-employed people, so the same week at the end of April also compared multiple cases.
The situation of self-employed persons is slightly different from the application of ordinary employees (W2 tax form). "UI Online was originally for unemployed people in W2, but it was also open to self-employed people during the epidemic. The application form therefore has a few more questions, but in fact, ordinary employees fill out more than self-employed people. Self-employed people only need to Fill in the 2019 net income, type of work and work address, personal data and reasons for unemployment, "he said.
Chen Yuancong also pointed out that if the last time he took the money was within 18 months, he could not apply again. People can call, email, and send letters to the California Employment Development Agency to extend the original plan. The bureau will ask applicants for work records within 18 months, and then recalculate and approve.
If the people's unemployment benefits application is approved, the time of payment will be calculated from the week of the last working day, so the application form will ask when the last working day will be.
The Federal Ministry of Finance guidelines mention that if an employer obtains a loan from the Federal Government ’s Payroll Protection Loan Program (PPP), whether or not an employee will go to work will also affect his eligibility for unemployment benefits. Chen Yuancong believes that, in fact, it also depends on the reasons written by the parties when applying for EDD. If an employee closes his or her work place when he applied for unemployment, and then reopens the door but does not go to work, the justification for not going to work is unfounded. However, if the employee applied for unemployment benefits and said that the children ’s school is closed, so they have to stay at home to take care of the children, this reason will not be affected. (Li Qingwei)