The state of Alabama takes the first 4 quarters of your last 5 completed quarters of earnings leading up to the month of the quarter you are filing in. For example if you file in Dec. your last complete quarter was July-Sept. This is the 5th quarter so they look at the four quarters preceeding. If your gross pay is equal to or exceeds 1 1/2 times your highest gross quarter earnings of those 4 quarters you qualify for benefits. To calculate weekly benefits they will take the average of your 2 highest quarter earnings and divide by 26. The minimum amount is $45 and the max is $265 as set by the state of Alabama, embarrassingly low to say the least. Round up to the next dollar on amounts .50 or greater and round down to the nearest dollar on amounts less than .50. For example your two high quarters,of the 4 in question, were $5750.00 and $6000.00. The average of those two quarters is $5875.00. 5875.00/26 = 225.96 or rounding up $226.00. So whether your gross quarterly avg. is $6900.00 or $15000.00 both people receive the max benefit of $265.00 per week. This is an injustice!! If you make around $20,500.00 a year you'll get roughly 52% of your gross weekly pay per week, however if you make $60,000.00 a year you'll get about 23% of your gross weekly pay.
They say 59 weeks. Gov. Riley supposedly refused stimulus money that would have put the mark at 79 week. Call his office to complain!
In Alabama you need to have worked 2 1/4's of the first 4 1/4's (12 months) of the last 5 completed 1/4's from the date of filing. See the below Related Links for more details.
According to page 24 in the Related Link below, the draw is from 6 weeks minimum, to 26 weeks maximum (unless extended).
26 weeks
Yes, but the severance could affect the amount of weekly unemployment benefits you receive. Check page 11 in the booklet found in the Related Link below for particulars.
Yes, as long as you qualified for both of them, individually.
What the max you can draw
Yes, you can apply and draw SS after applying for unemployment or vice versa as long as you qualify for each of them by their own criteria. As they are 2 different programs, they do not interfere with each other.
you can not draw unemployment in Texas if you are working full time
You can only apply for unemployment if you are ready to go to work. The unemployment office will expect you to be ready and able to work. These are 2 separate issues.
Yes
26 weeks.
If you work in SC then you don't need to draw unemployment. You, umm, work.
You can draw both unemployment and Social Security in all 50 states.
In Kansas, you can not draw unemployment if your hours are cut from 40 hours to 32 hours. Unemployment can be drawn if your fired, not just for a cut in hours.
if i am getting unemployment benefits in florida and take money from my 401k does that disqualify me from unemployment benefits