Unemployment questions - when moving, Please Help needed.

[LovesTimone]

Here a bit of the back story.

My DSIL might be being transferred to FL, (They live in GA) sometime in the next few months. Really between Oct and year end. My DD and DSIL are trying to figure out how to budget if the move happens. All the cost of moving, new deposits, and such. DD will not have a job to transfer to. A friend at work told her she can draw unemployment if and when they were to move. So DD asked me if I knew...

So my question is this: Can she draw unemployment if they move? this would help them out so much, I know it won't be near what she makes, but it would help out until she can get a job.

Also she is a Server how would that work they only make a couple of bucks and hour and the rest tips, which she does well at. Any insight into this would be great.

Thanks for any information, I have no idea where to even start suggesting were to look.

 

[msmayor]

Unemployment is designed to provide compensation for someone who loses their job NOT by their choice, or NOT because they did something against the company policy and procedures.

Relocation would be considered a choice...and most likely not covered under unemployment.

 

[LovesTimone]

Unemployment is designed to provide compensation for someone who loses their job NOT by their choice, or NOT because they did something against the company policy and procedures.

Relocation would be considered a choice...and most likely not covered under unemployment.

That's what I was thinking, but if her husband is transferred he won't have a choice, so she won't have a choice of relocation if it happens. She will have to go with him. So how does that work into the equation?

 

[Chernabog#1fan]

That's what I was thinking, but if her husband is transferred he won't have a choice, so she won't have a choice of relocation if it happens. She will have to go with him. So how does that work into the equation?

She would still be the one putting in her resignation with the company.

 

[msmayor]

That's what I was thinking, but if her husband is transferred he won't have a choice, so she won't have a choice of relocation if it happens. She will have to go with him. So how does that work into the equation?

It doesn't.

Anytime you voluntarily leave a job (and leaving to move away is leaving voluntarily, regardless of the reason) it is your choice. Her employer isn't asking her to leave or forcing her out...she is choosing to follow her husband and leave her job. Yes, its an obvious choice, but not one that makes an employer now on the hook to pay out unemployment.

She's not leaving because the employer wanted her to go. That's part of the requirement to collect unemployment.

 

[3 MEN AND A BOAT]

That's what I was thinking, but if her husband is transferred he won't have a choice, so she won't have a choice of relocation if it happens. She will have to go with him. So how does that work into the equation?

He doesn't have a choice but she does. She could move later or not at all, I'd expect the employer to contest it, as an employer I would. Tell her to try if you want but I'd wouldnt count on it.

 

[lovemygoofy]

Here a bit of the back story.

My DSIL might be being transferred to FL, (They live in GA) sometime in the next few months. Really between Oct and year end. My DD and DSIL are trying to figure out how to budget if the move happens. All the cost of moving, new deposits, and such. DD will not have a job to transfer to. A friend at work told her she can draw unemployment if and when they were to move. So DD asked me if I knew...

So my question is this: Can she draw unemployment if they move? this would help them out so much, I know it won't be near what she makes, but it would help out until she can get a job.

Also she is a Server how would that work they only make a couple of bucks and hour and the rest tips, which she does well at. Any insight into this would be great.

Thanks for any information, I have no idea where to even start suggesting were to look.

If the family is a military family, the DIL can possibly file for unemployment due to PCS move. The non-military spouse giving up a job needs to wait 30 days before the move and turn in written notice documenting leaving the position due to a military move. When filing for unemployment, attach a copy of the PCS orders to the unemployment forms and make sure the reason cited is military move.

Not sure if this even applies to your family but just throwing it out there.

 

[abolanwoski]

UC laws vary from state to state. She would need to contact the UC office of the state they are relocating TO. That is who she would apply to in order to collect. Many states have "good cause" exemptions for quitting a job, including a spouse move/transfer. Many limit that to military transfer, but some don't.

 

[natfrac]

My DD quit her job and was able to get unemployment. She relocated to another state where the groom lived because he had the better job. Each state is different and had their own guidelines, so it's worth checking out.

 

[barkley]

UC laws vary from state to state. She would need to contact the UC office of the state they are relocating TO. That is who she would apply to in order to collect. Many states have "good cause" exemptions for quitting a job, including a spouse move/transfer. Many limit that to military transfer, but some don't.

she needs to check with both the state she's moving to AND the state she currently works in. if all the work history is in another state she may have to see if that state would handle the claim (this was the case at one point with dh, we lived in Washington but his work history was in California. he had to file his claim with the state of California who administered it).

 

[railwife]

I know that my husbands work pays for the persons house/rest of lease if they are forced to relocate to a new town. I had to read his contract to find this out though. Maybe the husbands work does the same thing. As far as your daughters job, she cannot do unemployment if she chose to leave.

 

[crisi]

Thanks for any information, I have no idea where to even start suggesting were to look.

Google "unemployment trailing spouse" and the state they are moving to. Also google "unemployment compensation waitstaff" and the state they are moving to.

 

[TheRustyScupper]

1) In Florida,
. . . In order to qualify for benefits, you must:
. . . Have lost your job through no fault of your own.
. . . Be actively looking for a new job.
. . . Be ready to take a new job when offered.
. . . Meet wage requirements based on your previous job(s).
2) Review the policy at Florida Connect

 

[carmelhp]

1) In Florida,
. . . In order to qualify for benefits, you must:
. . . Have lost your job through no fault of your own.
. . . Be actively looking for a new job.
. . . Be ready to take a new job when offered.
. . . Meet wage requirements based on your previous job(s).
2) Review the policy at Florida Connect

That's the standard in most states, however, for example, in Indiana we have what is called a "modification," which is an exception to an otherwise voluntary quit without good cause in connection to the employment, providing that quitting work to follow a spouse to a new labor market does not disqualify from receiving benefits. As the quit is not for good cause attributable to the employer, the employer is relieved of charges to its experience account. In the OP's case, the interstate claim would likely be adjudicated by Georgia, so check Georgia law for a similar exception.

 

[HM]

If she is a server currently, she should have no problem finding something to replace her job in the new location.

We moved without jobs (both of us) once because we were unhappy with our work and life in our old location. We didn't have much, so rented a U-Haul and moved. Paid for the deposits for everything and just cut back and scrimped until we both had jobs in our new location.

 

[eh24fan]

It all depends on the state she is currently working in -- that is where her unemployment claim will be determined. If they move, then she would be an interstate claim and that is going to mean her claim will be drawn out of the state she worked in, but she will have to register with the state she lives in. Confusing...yes.

I work in UI and the best thing she can do is call the UI office where she lives now, tell them the situation and then they will tell her what she will need to do in whatever scenario. Every state is a little bit different and every situation is looked at on it's own, you can definitively tell someone if they will qualify or not.