People watch from a distance as President Joe Biden visits Capitola on Thursday with business owners and locals to survey efforts to recover from a series of severe storms.
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Business owners, employees, and self-employed people who lost their jobs or had their jobs interrupted due to the recent storms in Sacramento, Merced, Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and San Joaquin counties, Federal Disaster Unemployment You can now ask for help.
Eligible full-time workers can receive between $166 and $450 per week for up to 28 weeks. Part-time workers and self-employed part-time workers are also eligible.
The quickest and easiest way for new claimants to apply for assistance is through the California Department of Employment Development’s unemployment insurance online application. This is available in both English and Spanish. You can also get help from your local job center, local assistance center, or disaster recovery center.
Those who have lost their jobs or businesses, have their work hours reduced, or have their jobs interrupted due to the storm can apply until February 22nd.
The Federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance Program, which provides financial assistance, is administered by EDD. Assistance applies to losses beginning the week of January 1 for those in affected counties.
The last week for such benefits is the week ending July 15th.
To be eligible, applicants must meet one of the following criteria:
▪ Worked as a business owner or self-employed person in the disaster area, or was planning to resume employment or self-employed business, but took a leave of absence due to the disaster. This may include those who worked in agriculture or fishing.
▪ They are unable to go to work because of the disaster or are no longer able to work or provide services because of physical damage or destruction to their place of employment or self-employment as a direct result of the disaster. can not.
▪ They live in catastrophe areas and are unable to go to work or self-employed places outside the catastrophe areas because of the disaster.
▪ Due to injuries as a direct result of the disaster, they are unable to work or self-employ.
▪ Due to the death of the head of the household in the earthquake, they became a major support for the family budget.
Additionally, people “must have applied for and used all regular unemployment benefits, or be ineligible for regular unemployment benefits and remain unemployed as a direct result of the disaster,” EDD said. . And no longer viable jobs or self-employment must have been their main source of income.
Upon application, EDD will advise you that all required documentation must be submitted within 21 days of the application date.
That documentation includes an up-to-date federal income tax form or check stub, or other documentation supporting that the individual was working or self-employed when the disaster occurred.
According to the EDD, self-employed documents can be obtained from affidavits from banks, government agencies, or individuals with business knowledge.
EDD applicants may also contact the agency by phone Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, excluding holidays. Number:
▪ English: 1-800-300-5616
▪ Spanish: 1-800-326-8937
▪ Armenian: 1-855-528-1518
▪ Chinese (Cantonese): 1-800-547-3506
▪ Chinese (Mandarin): 1-866-303-0706
▪ Korean: 1-844-660-0877
▪ Tagalog: 1-866-395-1513
You can also visit the EDD Disaster-Related Services web page and the Governor’s Emergency Services website for up-to-date information on local assistance centers. At these centers, people can learn more about disaster relief programs and services.
EDD administers California’s federal disaster benefit program on behalf of the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the U.S. Bureau of Labor, Employment and Training Administration..
President Joe Biden last week visited several areas affected by the storm and declared major disasters in several counties.
Disaster Unemployment Assistance is a federal program that provides financial assistance to the unemployed and self-employed if they lose or lose their jobs as a direct result of a large-scale natural disaster.
This story was originally published January 23, 2023 at 3:38 PM.
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David Lightman is McClatchy’s primary congressional correspondent. Based in Hagerstown, Maryland, he has been writing, editing, and teaching for nearly 50 years. Riverside, California. Annapolis; Baltimore; and, since 1981, Washington.
