Filing for Unemployment

[Elisha 1]

Does anyone have experience filing for unemployment in California?

Over the past several months I have lost my job twice! The first was back in August when the Mortgage company I worked for died. The second is recently, when this small renewable energy resources company I was working for realized they created a position before they had work for it.

Anyways, here is a bit of trickiness to this regarding timelines. My last day on the job for the energy company was 1/3/08. I have a 2+ month contract setup to start on 1/28, but would like to collect for the time in between (I interviewed and got the contract last week). I got a bunch of paperwork from EDD with an "interview" date of 1/22. So, this seems a little awkward in that I have a "temporary" job starting less than a week after the interview.

I'm curious as to what I do. My guess is:
1) register at Caljobs
2) fill out first weekly claim form
3) answer the EDD interviewer's questions when (s)he calls on 1/22.

Does this sound like it? I guess I would only be collecting for three weeks at the most.

[shermanator 4]

yup, you got it.

I had horrible experience, after i recieved about 3200 in payments, my previous employer appealed the cliam, *after they already had their chance to do it* . . long story short, I didn't show up to court, and now am mayking payments to EDD to give them the "overpayment" back. I believe I can't collect on it again until that is paid in full.

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[Andy9o8 2]

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I didn't show up to court,

Well...there you go.

Edit to note: you're saying you had a legitimate defense to your employer's claim that you were overpaid benefits. Maybe so, but when you failed to show up in court, you abandoned that defense.