Questions about monetarily qualifying for unemployment insurance benefits are usually confined to the beginning of the unemploymen t process on every new unemployment claim filed. The monetary determination establishes a claim’s ..
- Benefit Year Beginning (BYB)
- Benefit Year End (BYE)
- Base Period (BP) and Covered Wages
- Weekly Benefit Amount (WBA)
- Any Other Income You May Receive as Being Subject to a Deducted from your WBA
- Employers To Be Charged For Benefits if You Collect
Uh-oh .. or as they say, therein lies the rub.
An initial monetary determination can and should be appealed if you think it is incorrect to short, or if you ask me, pay more in weekly unemployment benefit, than your earned high quarter qualifying wages allow for.
But, the monetary, is not the determination that finds you eligible to receive unemployment benefits. Eligibility determinations to allow, or deny benefits, come next, after a cursory (based on the available information) investigation into the cause for unemployment, aka your non-monetary separation issue.
However, Benefit Accuracy Measurements (BAM) indicate that monetary determination errors are commonly made by state UI agencies. Some might say alarmingly often, depending on the state and the year, of course. So appeal monetary qualifying determinations, when you think it’s necessary.
Note: If your monetary concern is an overpayment determination for benefits paid years ago, I’d appeal it to save my appeal rights .. and then try to figure out what might of went wrong and gather evidence while I waited for the hearing notice. Also, overpayment amounts can be inflated and subject to potentially being reduced if they include benefits paid before a non-monetary eligibility issue with your claim arose.
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