It is not true that, if you paid in, you get paid unemployment benefits: my husband is self-employed and must pay a sizable chunk into unemployment regularly. Because he is self-employed, he is barred from ever collecting any benefits.
“”””It is not true that, if you paid in, you get paid unemployment benefits: my husband is self-employed and must pay a sizable chunk into unemployment regularly. Because he is self-employed, he is barred from ever collecting any benefits.”””
I’ve paid on myself for over 30 years and I cannot collect a dime.
And since hussein decided unemployment should be given out for 99 weeks instead of the usual 26, I am expecting we employers will have our rates increased dramatically to pay the difference.
Another reason why I cut way back on my hiring. I’m tired of being the revenue collector for the government.
That’s the worst, since he’s got to pay both the employer & the employee’s share of the unemployment tax, so he’s paying double what everyone else is.
I wonder if he could just set his business up with an LLC or something, and put you as the owner, with him as an employee. You’d pay the same amount of taxes, but if you ever wanted to close the business, you could “fire” him, and maybe he could get unemployment.