Vivinavi : Hawaii : (United States) Hawaii

• sunset
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• 2021/03/17 (Wed) 00:54
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Honolulu Star Advertiser]

As some of you may know, Anne, the UI director, sometimes appears in interviews. She gives updates on unemployment insurance, so it's a must-see. For those of you who are not fluent in English, please check out the interviews with the help of your family, colleagues, and friends.
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https://www.facebook.com/staradvertiser/


You can always check the latest information on the official announcement of unemployment insurance at
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●Gov. Ige Press Release
●UI Office Press Release
●UI Office Twitter
●Honolulu Star Advertiser Facebook


If you are new to this topic, be sure to read #916 in this topic.

• nuiloamama
• 2021/03/17 (Wed) 14:51
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SUNSET and everyone who shares information with us.
Thank you for all your help.

I have been receiving unemployment insurance on partial since last April.
benefit year end is 4/4/2021 but I have a balance of $ 3000. So I called the call center to ask for an extension of the yearend based on your post.
After about 50 calls, I was told to pull and wait for the next connection, and after an hour and a half I was connected.
I was told to make a second Initial Application after the yearend date.
I thought I could move to PEUC1 after the UI was over, but I wondered if anyone else was in a similar situation ？ so I wrote this.
I will have about half of my WBA when I apply for the second one.
Please let me know.

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• 2021/03/18 (Thu) 17:52
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nuiloamama, just to share.
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It is unclear at this time if they will extend the original UI deadline since there is no case at all where the original UI deadline was extended while working shorter hours since last April.

Regarding the four option statutes given by the federal government to the states, Hawaii chose the option "to make the Benefit Year End deadline eligible for extension after scrutiny of PEUC recipients' accounts or to make them eligible for a second Initial Application". We chose the option. I believe that the Hawaii government chose this option to help those who are temporarily laid off or completely unemployed who have no income in Hawaii, which has not reopened in earnest. Unfortunately, there was no mention of the original UI at all.

For those of you who have been on short-time work since last spring and
are nearing the deadline for Original UI,
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in case you are forced to submit a second Initial Application, you can live on your short-time work income and lowered WBA alone. If there is a possibility that you will be forced to submit a second Initial Application, we recommend that you consider supplementing your FPUC $300 per week （ ） which has been extended until September, or by looking for part-time work.

p.s.
If you are new to this topic,
please refrain from asking me questions in the
topic or by email and read #916 first.

• nuiloamama
• 2021/03/18 (Thu) 18:34
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sunset
Thank you.

Yesterday, when I got through to the call center, I requested someone who speaks Japanese, but they were not available and I had to communicate in English.
But today I received a call from someone who can speak Japanese.

I still have to submit a second InitialApplication for UI, which is not possible to extend the Yearend.
I'll post this for your reference.

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• 2021/03/18 (Thu) 19:50
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[PEUC Program]

The Unemployment Insurance Help Team has contacted me to share （ 1 ） through （ 8 ）. Some of this is duplicated from what I shared recently.

The following explanation is for the PEUC program; it is unclear at this time if the same rules will apply to original UI who have been receiving the program for nearly a year for shorter hours or other reasons.

（ 1 ） If the difference between the "current WBA" and the "WBA on the second Initial Application" is $25 or more, you can choose to maintain your current WBA. → For example, if the current WBA is $500 and the WBA on the 2nd Application is $480, the difference will be $20 and you will be "eligible for 2nd Application".

（ 2 ） If you receive an email around the time the Benefit Year End expires, please follow the guidance in the email. Don't forget to check your spam folder as well.

（ 3 ） If a new balance for the September extension is automatically added, it means that the PEUC September extension has been extended. → That does not necessarily mean that the Benefit Year End deadline will be extended at the same time. Please read （ 4 ） , （ 5 ） , （ 6 ） below for more information.

（ 4 ） If your Benefit Year End expires earlier than March 14, please "Check Your Email" or "Check the UI System to see if your Benefit Year End expiration date was automatically extended. Please do so.

（ 5 ） If Benefit Year End expires after March 14, please "Check Email" or "Check UI System to see if Benefit Year End expired automatically extended".

（ 6 ） If the Benefit Year End expiration date is automatically extended, it will be extended for one quarter, which is three months. At the end of the first quarter, the UI office will again review the account and decide whether to "automatically extend the Benefit Year End for another three months" or "instruct the applicant to submit a second Initial Application".

（ 7 ） If your Benefit Year End has not been automatically extended and you have not received an email even though you have newly added the balance for the September extension, do not rush to contact the call center. If your Benefit Year End has not been automatically extended and you have not received an email, please do not contact the call center.

（ 8 ） If you have no PEUC balance and no new balance has been added and you have not even received an email, please contact the call center.

At first glance, this may seem like a harrowing experience every 3 months, but as mentioned in （ 1 ） the "$25 difference rule" makes it unlikely that you will have a troubling development where your WBA is less than half.

However, as you all know, there have been many glitches in the UI system in the past, and you should keep an eye on the UI system yourself to see if you are caught in a glitch. If there is a possibility of a glitch, please contact the call center and ask them to fix the system.

（ 1 ） to （ 8 ） were announced by Anne, the UI director, in the interview video and summarized by the unemployment insurance help team. Those with questions should contact the call center.

p.s.
If you are new to this topic,
please do not ask me questions in the topic or by email, and
please read #916 first.