MI - Additional claim required help (file, apply, payment, fill)

[Randall1983]

Quick backstory:
I was laid off on June 23. Filed for unemployment the Tuesday following (which affected my eligibility for the week — understood). I was deemed ineligible for benefits during the first FOUR weeks due to a buyout/severance (vacation time, etc.).
I have sense gotten things rolling. I was paid for the week of July 29, and filed in a timely matter for my certification for the weeks of Aug. 5 and Aug. 12.
However, the status for both of the open certifications states "additional claim required". Of course, the Michigan unemployment office phone line is too busy to take calls. My usual appointment time with MARVIN at 11A on Tuesdays — so it's coming up here shortly.
Please advise. If I have to file a new claim entirely, as I believe to be the case (pleading ignorance here, I've never gone this far down the rabbit hole), will I have to go through the process with Michigan Works/ ITalent etc.?
Any information would be wonderful. Thanks all, God bless.
-R

[Ariadne22]

You can't file a new claim. You have a existing claim which has already paid out one week's benefits and which won't expire for a year. Wait for the interview.

[Kierellis718]

I am having the same issue here. I have never claimed unemployment, so this is all new to me as well. I just got my first payment, the rest says for the 3 weeks on there that additional claim is required. If I filed a claim already, and it lasts a year, then what is the additional claim required? Besides posting two job contacts for each week claiming, what else do they need? Shouldn't have to go through this. I was on Medical Leave when I got let go from my job.

[Chyvan]

Originally Posted by Kierellis718

If I filed a claim already, and it lasts a year, then what is the additional claim required?

Because things can happen AFTER you apply and during periods when there is a gap in your weekly claims.

The system assumes that if there is a gap that you went back to work and that creates a NEW separation issue. In your case, it sounds like the "medical leave" left you not "able and available," and the purpose of the additional claim is to make sure that you're "cured." UI is not a sympathy system. It doesn't pay when you physically can't work, only when external things (like an employer) won't let you work.

Originally Posted by Kierellis718

Besides posting two job contacts for each week claiming, what else do they need?

Lots of things.

Originally Posted by Kierellis718

Shouldn't have to go through this. I was on Medical Leave when I got let go from my job.

You're complaining about the wrong thing. You want to scream "medical," and this is what happens to you. What you should be complaining about is that no one taught you this stuff or you'd have done a better job with your UI matters. That no where on the state website is this stuff documented. That when you call (if you can get through) that none of the $12/hr clerks tell you this stuff. That you have to go get help from anonymous strangers on the internet that have lived it.

You probably need to talk more about what happened with your job and your illness. Before you waste time filing an "additional claim," you need a doctor to say, "you're cured." Have you been to a doctor?

If you don't fill in the gaps with your story, you're just going to be disappointed that you wasted your time and didn't have all the pieces ready.