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Originally Posted by robertpasa
I think it's not an amount of time but an amount of pay?
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It kind of is both.
If you've never worked, then you need to work past a quarter switch over.
Example: You start working on Jan 1. In this case, you need to work or wait until approximately April 1st, or you have no wages in your base period to work with.
2nd: If you start in March, the you only have to work a month until April 1, BUT then if you didn't earn enough money then you won't get a claim OR a really crappy one.
If you're a BIG money earner then $23400 earned in one quarter gets you $450/wk for 26 weeks.
If you're a typical wage earner, then 3 months of wages will only get you about 13 weeks of benefits.
You really need 6 months of wages perfectly distributed into two quarters to get 26 weeks. If you start crossing over quarter boundaries, and it buckets into three quarters, then you might need to wait for things to age into the right quarters.
You really need to know this stuff BEFORE you apply or you can be really sorry when you end up with a crappy claim because you didn't do a base period analysis when you could have had so much more if you'd only known.
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