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.
then I guess I don’t understand and he doesn’t either...he called and finally got hold of someone and they don’t understand the amount approved and couldn’t help him and he has been reporting zero earnings because he only reported the job he lost and he thought that was the income he had to report on...so dang confused and no one in our family has ever reported for unemployment and you can’t get someone on the phone and when you do they don’t help :(
He was told he could claim unemployment for his 1099 and get PUA only (not state unemployment). He was super clear about his employment status. He tries to do it all correctly including calling the employment department and now it still sounds like he has done it wrong but there is no one to talk to in order to fix it.