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Hi there, I am hoping someone can help because I cannot find this information anywhere online. My sister in law worked in a restaurant in New York City, starting last October, 2019. She was denied unemployment because she did not meet the income requirements for the previous quarters. The income she made in January and February 2020 would make her eligible, but since she applied at the end of March they did not consider first quarter 2020. Now that it’s April, is she able to just start a new application, which would include first quarter 2020? Or should she try to appeal? She has no money and is feeling desperate. Thank you in advance for any advice you could give!
But is there any way to get 1st quarter 2020 to be counted, now that we are in 2nd quarter of 2020? She made enough money in Jan and Feb to qualify.
In almost every state, the base period is a one-year period: the earliest four of the last five complete quarters of the calendar year. For example, if you apply for unemployment in March 2020, the base period would be October 1, 2018 though September 30, 2019 (in that example, since the last complete calendar quarter was October 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019, the base period is the four quarters preceding that one).
“ Q: What employment do I need to qualify for benefits?
A: You must have worked and been paid wages for work in at least two calendar quarters in your base period,
AND
For claims filed in 2019,you must have been paid at least $2,400 in wages in one of the calendar quarters (this amount increases to $2,600 for claims filed in 2020) in your base period,
AND
The total wages paid to you in your base period must be one and one-half times your high quarter wages.
We use no more than $11,088 of your high quarter earnings to determine if you qualify. You must have earned at least half that amount ($5,544) in the other base period quarters. ”
In almost every state, the base period is a one-year period: the earliest four of the last five complete quarters of the calendar year. For example, if you apply for unemployment in March 2020, the base period would be October 1, 2018 though September 30, 2019 (in that example, since the last complete calendar quarter was October 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019, the base period is the four quarters preceding that one).
NY also uses an alternate base period if you don't qualify under the standard base period. If applying today the standard base period would be Jan 1st 2019 - December 31st 2019. The alternative base period would be April 1st 2019 - March 31st 2020.
NY also uses an alternate base period if you don't qualify under the standard base period. If applying today the standard base period would be Jan 1st 2019 - December 31st 2019. The alternative base period would be April 1st 2019 - March 31st 2020.
It doesn’t look like she had enough employment in either base period.
Thank you everyone for your help. She will request the consideration of alternate base period and hope they include Jan-March 2020, even though she applied end of March
Actually, it looks like that is not going to work. On the form for “Request of Alternate Base Period” it asks for the Claim Effective/Start Date. If she puts March 16, which is what they have on file, how will they consider Jan 1-March 31? Won’t they still consider Oct 1-Dec 31 as the most recent quarter? She needs them to consider 1st quarter 2020 in order to qualify.
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