Unemployment Benefits Question

[RED89GTAWSU]

So currently I work as a contract employee at GM, and I elected to take the higher hourly rate and no benefits instead of the lower rate with vaca and holiday pay and access to rediculously expesnive insurance. At the time I took the job I was married and we were getting insurance through my wife's company. Now, I'm happily divorced, but with half the normal income to work with and living on my own again. Being contract, I can collect unemployment for the two yearly shutdowns.....christmas and july.

My question has to do with the fact that I'm probably going to go out and get a second job to help pay down some debt I took out of the divorce and have a cushion on my weekly spending money. This second job will more than likely end up being at a restraunt bartending or waiting tables.......the hours/week and take home money will vary from week to week based on which shifts I get and the occasional decision to get my shifts covered and take a week off.

If I have this part time job, which is on the books, come july how will my unemployment be affected? Am I eligible? If I am, and I opt to not work the second job that week, and I claim 0 for income will I get full unemployment benefit? I could always pick up more shifts to cover, but covering the loss of a whole weeks pay at my day job will be almost impossible especially the week of the 4th in a lake community.

 

[Siegel1719]

Any income from that job will come out of your unemployment benefits at a 50% rate up to 1.5 times your weekly benefit. Technically if u take the week off or deny work at your second job u would not be able to claim. Although illegal if your unemployment claim is through gm they will likely never check your income from the restaurant those weeks.

 

[Systemax302]

So currently I work as a contract employee at GM, and I elected to take the higher hourly rate and no benefits instead of the lower rate with vaca and holiday pay and access to rediculously expesnive insurance. At the time I took the job I was married and we were getting insurance through my wife's company. Now, I'm happily divorced, but with half the normal income to work with and living on my own again. Being contract, I can collect unemployment for the two yearly shutdowns.....christmas and july.

My question has to do with the fact that I'm probably going to go out and get a second job to help pay down some debt I took out of the divorce and have a cushion on my weekly spending money. This second job will more than likely end up being at a restraunt bartending or waiting tables.......the hours/week and take home money will vary from week to week based on which shifts I get and the occasional decision to get my shifts covered and take a week off.

If I have this part time job, which is on the books, come july how will my unemployment be affected? Am I eligible? If I am, and I opt to not work the second job that week, and I claim 0 for income will I get full unemployment benefit? I could always pick up more shifts to cover, but covering the loss of a whole weeks pay at my day job will be almost impossible especially the week of the 4th in a lake community.

There may be some minimum number of hours you need to work to disqualify you from unemployment, but I'm not sure about that maybe someone else knows.

I can tell you that I'm going through a long appeals process over unemployment currently (I'm owed $5,400 at this point) after being denied for not satisfying some requirement that I wasn't even aware of when I originally applied through the UIA and that also wasn't specified anywhere in the instructions on their website for applying. There are pretty much no offices around anymore and if you try to call the # the UIA provides you'll just get a message saying they are having too many calls and try back later so it's nearly impossible to get any information from them about your claim or find out exactly what information you need to send with your claim. It's all part of their system that I'm sure is designed to help them deny as many claims as possible. So just be aware they will look for ANY possible reason to deny your unemployment claim, including things that aren't specified anywhere in their instructions for applying.