Unemployment Insurance
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Caveats
- The purpose is to help you be sure that you are considering all of the many issues – you need to evaluate your own situation.
- Things may be different this year – the comments are from people who applied for UI between 2002 and 2007.
- We are not lawyers. Your mileage may vary.
How to make the UI system work for you
- Misconceptions about UI. Unemployment insurance is neither welfare nor insurance you paid for.
- UI: Read the rules. Vital to know the terms and rules of the game.
- Outline the Rules. One member's cheat sheet.
- Advice from a former UI adjudicator. How to get your application approved.
- Timing Your Claim: When should you file your claim?
- Intake Appointment: Experiences and advice about meeting with the UI intake people.
- "How I Got One Contact A Week": Negotiating your requirement...
- Reporting Your Status: You have to report your status regularly.
- Payments: How much will you get (and when)?
- UI Extensions: Sometimes there are federal or state programs to extend UI.
- If You Change States: If you move.
- Complications : Traps; phone vs. online; appeals.
Unemployment insurance if Enhanced Early Retirement (EER)
If you took Enhanced Early Retirement, you can probably get UI.
(This is not an issue if you left HP and are classified as retired. The following discussion only applies to you if you took the Enhanced Early Retirement incentives offered in some cycles.)
A lot depends on what words you use and how you present your information.
Members reported that HP was contesting UI for EERs in rare cases.
Even when HP protested, members reported that appeals were straightforward (often done by phone conference) with no risk except a little time – and that they generally won.
- Unemployment for EER - the issues. Overview of the issues. (members only)
- Evidence that members are using to support EER UI Includes URLs on HP's public statements on the 2007 EER program, newspaper article, and other supporting info. (members only)
Many of the member reports for specific states, below, discuss EER.
Apply where you worked, not where you lived. That is the state fund that HP paid the UI premiums into.
Member reports for specific states
Here are state-by-state comments on getting unemployment insurance.
If your state is listed, read the comments for your state closely, but also skim through the comments for all states. There are common themes that are better expressed in the notes for some states.
If your state is not listed, read through the comments for all states. The overall picture will help you deal with your state's UI department.
- Alabama UI (members only)
- California
- California UI -- Overview (members only)
- California UI -- Application questions (members only)
- California UI -- EER appealed and won – 10 reports (Four from 2007) (members only)
- California UI -- EER approved – 6 reports (members only)
- California UI -- EER appealed and lost – 2 reports (Old: 2002 and 2005) (members only)
- California UI -- EER fined – 2 reports (Old: 2002 and 2003) (members only)
- Colorado
- Colorado UI -- Interacting with the CDLE (members only)
- Colorado UI -- EER (members only)
- Connecticut UI (members only)
- Florida UI (members only)
- Georgia UI (members only)
- Idaho UI (members only)
- Massachusetts UI (members only)
- Missouri UI (members only)
- New Hampshire UI (members only)
- New Jersey UI (members only)
- Oregon UI (members only)
- Texas UI (members only)
- Washington UI (members only)
2/6/08 4,221
7/12/08 5,184
3/4/09 6,034
7/9/09 6,485
4/28/10 7,505
