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That’s why it’s very hard and unemployment in general is confusing.
It’s hard to answer questions that are specific.
Someone will ask on my social media, “What does this mean for my claim?”
But it’s very fact specific.

For the expansion, the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance which means benefits for the self-employed and independent contractors —
while we’re still waiting for guidance on eligibility requirements from the federal government,
the first steps will always be the same.

The first step is they have to be denied for unemployment first.
The law clearly says this is for individuals who would otherwise have been ineligible.
No matter what, the first step is doing to be to go through the denial process.

Q: Would they then appeal?

A: No, it wouldn’t be an appeal.
This is the part we’re waiting for from the federal government.
When we were speaking to the U.S. Dept. of Labor, I asked specifically about Disaster Unemployment Assistance and if we can just break out the old programming and they said no, much to my chagrin.

One, we are a federally-administered system so we need to know what we have to do to give out that assistance.
Two, if we give out money improperly, then people would have to give that money back.

Q: So should gig workers and self-employed people apply and wait?

A: Yep, for now. Hopefully we will have better guidance when the DOL gets back to us.
People have asked why we aren’t giving answers like New York but they are telling people the same thing: apply and get denied.

Mr. President,

If a person gets denied and doesn't appeal, I believe their claim gets shelved.
None of this is sounding right to me.
Hoping your administration will straighten this out, because this sounds hokey to me.