Re: Unemployment compensation and self-employment (was Re: Laid Off)

[Kari Gulbrandsen <kkgulbrandsen -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Yes. That is exactly right for Pennsylvania. I triggered my own audit
because of the way I answered a question.

On Tuesday, November 13, 2012, Gene Kim-Eng wrote:

> I think this is largely the same everywhere.  As long as you can show that
> the self-employment was an aside to your full-time regular job BEFORE you
> lost the regular job and not something you've done in response to the job
> loss, you should be ok as far as qualifying for benefits.  Some states may
> require you to report the income and deduct it from your benefits.
>
> As far as states "investigating," I doubt that any state has the resources
> to randomly investigate anyone, especially after all the public sector
> cutting that's been going on the past few years.  What happens is that
> someone reports suspected fraud, a discrepancy is found automatically
> between UE vs state witholding rolls or (and I think this is the most
> common), you get one of those random audit questionnaires and answer one or
> more of the questions in a way that triggers an inquiry.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
> On 11/13/2012 8:26 AM, Mike Starr
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