Here is something strange...my son applied for unemployment for his second job (1099 worker). He was still employed by his first job full time but was meeting remainder of his bills with his second job. They asked for work history and he put his first job and stated several places he is not filing for unemployment with main job.
He hoped he would qualify for the pandemic insurance since he was a 1099 worker. He gets back paperwork this past week saying he qualified for REGULAR unemployment and based it on Lowes (a part time job he had left almost 7 months ago) and which he never even mentioned on the unemployment app. He tried contacting them every day since but just keeps getting hung up on so he has no idea what to do...just received his first check and it includes the regular unemployment and the $600.
No state allows you to choose what employer you file against. Claims are based on total earnings and against any employer you worked for in the last 52 weeks or in the first four of the last five completed quarters (depending on the state). When claiming each week, he must report his gross earnings from any employer he's still working for.
I’m never surprised to see bureaucrats acting stupidly.
After all, most of them are affirmative action hires who couldn’t have passed the third grade back when I went to school, but the color of their skin guarantees them a job.
I would advise your son to bank that money if he can, because if some other drooling idiot decides it shouldn’t have been paid, they’ll demand it back, and they won’t care a whit that it was their mistake.