Self-Employment Issue Adjudication on Active Claim

[u/that_is_so_meta51]

My claim has been active with a benefit year beginning of Jun 15, 2025. I was able to claim the first 5 weeks without any self-employment work reported.

By the the 6th week I had a short term part time contract signed with a client, and worked a few hours that week in which I reported the change. That prompted the online questionnaire about the self-employment which then opened the claim issue, which has now been in "Adjudication in progress" since Jul 28, 2025. I provided all the necessary documentation around that initial contract agreement in this questionnaire as an attachment plus marked the hours selector with the days and times I usually work that first client, which was 2 hours a week max at the time of the self employment questionnaire submission.

By the 7th week, I had signed a second contract with another client and by the 9th week I had hours to report for BOTH clients. When asked on the Type of self-employment step "Is this the same type of self-employment work you reported to us before on this unemployment claim?" question, I selected NO, as I was assuming to receive another self employment issue questionnaire after this claim report to update my availability and provide more documentation. THAT DID NOT OCCUR.

Week's 10 and beyond, I've still been reporting my hours for both clients + selecting YES on the Type of self-employment question since I had already reported the NO on week 9.

When should I expect the Self-employment issue to be followed up on in adjudication? Why did I not get another self-employment questionnaire after reporting further self-employment changes on week 9? Anything I should prepare for or attempt to remediate through communication? Potential pitfalls of the approach I took?

Notes:

I’m in a sole proprietorship setup operating on my own. NO UID # just using my social, not doing the LLC route for my 1099 work at this moment.

I’m now up to ~20 hours a week max between these two clients. But it all depends on workload and not consistent week to week. I’m still able to submit for claims.

I’m still looking for FTE, logging me 3 weekly activities and “ready & available” for 40 hours of work FTE if given the opportunity.

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[u/SoThenIThought_]

Hi there.

there's actually only one part of the self-employment fact finding that has any power over the claim, which is three questions

what we really need to do is have you go physically look. it's in your online account. do you want help in figure out where to look? I offer this to everyone in this situation

you can review your submission by doing this ^{Yes this is a guide for looking at job separation stuff but it's still the same process}

but you are correct, they don't send you a second fact finding. because your company details haven't changed and the nature of the work hasn't changed even though you have a different contract. The nature of the work is still the same

The nature of the work has no bearing on the claim. only one part of the self-employment fact finding, which is three questions

if the questions are answered incorrectly or against eligibility then we can change them. otherwise we can do an escalation enforcement of the process this so this finally gets a result

REPLY TO THIS THREAD ^{[THE OTHERS ARE JUST INFORMATIONAL]}

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copy and paste of information from the roadmap likely to be brought up

Self employed Work/Multiple Employers/Paid Late

• Added 4/12: 2 jobs? Paid Late? Reporting Complex Earnings

• Added 8/22 Sidebar about Good Faith income reporting; How weekly claim eligibility compares to claim-wide Eligibility

• Added 6/15/2023 Is this self employed income? What does state law say?

  • Added 7/23/2023 Volunteering/Hobby/Self Employment: Trying to determine impact, if any and similar, 7/23/2023

Added 2/22/2023 Reporting Self-employed Income, FAQ

• Added 8/6/2023 Casual Labor? Basics

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• Added 7/25/2023 Compilation: ESD resources that explain how to do a weekly claim

[u/SoThenIThought_ → u/SoThenIThought_]

works in desktop mode only previous times that I've discussed this

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[u/that_is_so_meta51 → u/SoThenIThought_]

What is the specific three questions on the self employment fact finder? That’s not clear to me

[u/SoThenIThought_ → u/that_is_so_meta51]

https://imgur.com/a/AOPN30P

questions 4, 9 and 10

what are the answers you have for those?

[u/that_is_so_meta51 → u/SoThenIThought_]

YES on all of those

[u/SoThenIThought_ → u/that_is_so_meta51]

any no answer result in ineligibility

you have all yes answers

then this isn't nothingburger.

after you submit this, you'll see that there'll be an open eligibility issue listed in the link, upload a document. Don't upload stuff there randomly. it's just a place we look for the title of open issues. I don't know why people randomly upload stuff. anyway

it'll languish there until they actually process it

and it'll make you nervous. and suspicious. but this is just because they don't really provide minimum / average / maximum time frames with which they process this stuff and ultimately it doesn't matter because it's not going to affect that claim anyway

[u/that_is_so_meta51 → u/SoThenIThought_]

When I submitted the initial and only self employment fact finder, I did submit with it a .pdf copy of my contract for my first client. That okay?

[u/SoThenIThought_ → u/that_is_so_meta51]

yeah because it's not about the nature of the work. or the contract.

it's literally only about if your self-employment prevents you from being able and available: looking for an accepting work as an employee, thus the nature of the questions and the nature of the answers

only if The document you gave somehow erodes your ability to be able and available, then that would impact it.

similarly you had to fill out that chart of availability. sometimes people accidentally put that they work like 85 hours a week on self-employment. yeah that's going to prevent you from being able and available. sometimes it's just a math error or a misunderstand about what exactly is being asked, it's on a per week basis. often it has to be prorated

but if I remember correctly you already discussed this or at least most of this.. Tell me if I'm wrong I'm having somebody conversations at the same time I don't know anymore

[u/Choo-johnson]

that_is_so_meta51- Have you received a benefits payment yet? I've been in adjudication for 6 weeks now, and I'm wondering how long it took to move through the process