unemployment question?
Asked by aligrespeq
i was recently laid off last week. I am an outside sales representative for a company based out of Georgia. i have been with them for over a year. However i live in Florida. who do i file unemployment under? They gave me a 1 months worth of severance pay. Will this in any way make me ineligible for the unemployment benefits?

Best Answer:
Contact the unemployment office in Florida. Although the company is based in Georgia--you fall under all of the laws of your current state. I too got laid off and that is what I had found. Register for unemployment ASAP. It takes about a month to get your first check and that is after they contact your former employer. DO IT NOW!!!!!
Currently a displaced worker (and now going to the bank to cash my Unemployment debit card since the bank just opened.) email me if you have any questions.
Answered by BirdogsID

contact the unemployment office in florida and ask them what you should do. http://www.IMjots.com
Answered by Megan A

I believe you have to approach the labor office in the area where you live and not where you worked. if you have received severance pay that does not affect since that does not mean you are still employed. even if you received payment from the previous employer for services rendered you are unemployed as of now. Hope this helps.
Answered by alohmora

Okay I believe this is how it goes. My husband worked in South Carolina but lived in North Carolina. He had to file in South Carolina because that is where the company was and where they paid taxes and unemployment insurance to. You should call both Georgia and Florida they will definitely have a correct answer. But I think you will need to go with GA in my opinion you just will have to make sure that you don't pay GA taxes because as far as your taxes go, you live in Florida and FL doesn't have any state taxes. Also about the severance pay, the way it works in SC they usually take your pay check and divide it by how long it will last with unemployment and then start payments. For example the max you can get in Florida is $275 a week and if you get a serverance pay for $1100 then they will make you wait 4 weeks before you get your first check. I am not sure if that's how it works in Florida but that's how it works in South Carolina. I also got a serverance pay but it wasn't over a period of time it was one payment with my last paycheck so I really didn't count it because it was in the form of 40 hours. So I also believe that it based on how your employer words it on whether you want to go as far as saying it was serverance and possibly receiving a penalty. I just looked it up and this is what it says in Florida Unemployment Claims form when you're claiming for states you worked in; Note: If you worked for one company but traveled to different states as a part of your job, list the state in which you were based or the state to which your company paid your unemployment taxes. I hope that helps. Good luck.
Answered by ShortyMIA