New york state unemployment. If you are eligible for regular unemployment insurance benefits or pandemic emergency unemployment compensation 13 additional weeks an additional 600 per week will be added to your benefit rate until the week ending 7262020. If you are not eligible for those benefits you may be eligible for pandemic unemployment assistance pua. Unemployment insurance interpretation index the interpretation service index is a compilation of rules based on appeal board.
Title 12 of new york codes rules and regulations. Learn how to clear your browser cache if you experience issues logging in with your nygov username and password. New yorkers can collect unemployment benefits for an additional 20 weeks in a move designed to cushion those thrown out of work by the coronavirus pandemic.
You can also certify for weekly benefits with our automated phone system by calling 833 324 0366 for pua or 888 581 5812 for ui. If youve seen the term waiting week on your payment history it is a relic of our existing system and does not impact your benefits. There are immediate openings throughout new york state.
Looking for a job. Mayor de blasio praised the state. New york state is waiving the 7 day waiting period for unemployment insurance benefits for people who are out of work due to coronavirus covid 19 closures or quarantines.
See the ny hire now website. Governor cuomo enacted a law that provides benefits including sick leave paid family leave and disability benefits to new york employees impacted by mandatory or precautionary orders of quarantine or isolation due to covid 19. New york with a state unemployment rate of 157 percent in june qualified for 20 weeks.
In the city hit hardest by the pandemic the unemployment rate was a massive 204 percent that same month.