RE: Unemployment Comp-- I "resigned" from my job on 8-8-08 due to an ongoing case w/ depression that my ?

Question

Employer WAS aware of, I agreed to resign & they told me they "wouldn't contest" my application for unemployment income.

When I filled out the application for unemployment @ www.michigan.gov/uia I thought that you can't get the income for a simple "resignation" but that you had to be fired/terminated, whatever you want to call it, so I put down Fired for Medical Condition.

Now they want a laundry list of answers for a bunch of their questions.

I am doing this correctly, OR should I have simply put down resigned or Laid off? I thought the truth was best but Now I am unsure, please someone who knows or has some idea from potential experience help me out here, I reside & worked in Michigan.

Answer 1

you can draw if you quit, it just depends on the reason.

why you lost the job is just one small part of the equation. your income in the base year as well as in the previous quarter are used to see if you qualify. you also have to be willing and ABLE to work.

being off of work for an illness may fall under FMLA (which is unpaid leave) and when you are well again, up to 12 weeks, you have a job when you return.  

for info about FMLA:

http://www.dol.gov/compliance/laws/comp-...

you need to be honest on the application for unemployment (edit the application or call UI) but if you are not working due to illness you are probably not going to qualify.

Answer 2

You have to fill out everything truthfully, if you don't you risk the chance of not getting the unemployment.  Once you fill the info out they will notify your employer who then can contest your unemployment, which you said they won't, assuming they don't you will then get your unemployment - other than you given false information, the only other reason for you unemployment to be denied would be if your employer fights it.  You can put down your reason for leaving as an agreed resignation.

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Answer 3

I can't answer for Michigan, but when I had a medical reason for not being able to return to work here in Ohio, I was told to put down that I had been terminated due to illness.  Instead, I chose to call and speak to someone one-on-one to make sure that they had the correct information.  Sometimes it's a fight to get through to a live operator, but you should always try to speak to a human being if you're unsure about what to list as the reason for leaving your former job.

Here in Ohio, you can't file for unemployment if you resign unless you have a special reason or case.  You also can't file for being terminated (you wouldn't believe how many people would slack off if given the chance to get "free money" here) unless it's a special circumstance.  Originally, I'd worked for 13 years and didn't apply for unemployment until 15 minutes into my new job, a severe respiratory distress situation left me being rushed to the emergency room.  Even then, unemployment had to have full medical records and history before giving me the go-ahead to receive unemployment compensation from my old job, which I'd only been terminated from because the company closed up "shop" and moved out of state.

Sadly, you might have done more damage than you know by saying you were terminated because technically, you resigned.  Although it's a technicality, it's hard to say what your unemployment office will do with that.  Maybe you should try to call first chance and see if you can straighten it out...otherwise, you might be denied, or placed on an indefinite wait period until an investigation takes place.

Good luck to you.

Answer 4

Call the help line..........1-866-5000-0017 be prepaired for a very long wait............about 1/2 to 1 hour............when you get to the folks on the other end of the line they really try to help.................good luck