r/UnemploymentWA • u/SoThenIThought_ Admin for WEBA.Law, WA Unemployment Benefits • Aug 08 '21

Discussion Weekly CLAIM & Processing/Paid/Posted Thread

-----At-A-Glance Updates-----

Added 7/9 ESD: Last Minute Change to Job Search Reporting: >>>Click "Yes", Not Requiring Details to be Reported<<<

Added 6/13 Return of the Job Search on July 11, FAQ

Added 6/15 ESD Clarification: 1 Job Search Activity on PUA, 3 for PEUC

Historical Clarification: Job search suspension is tied to the Washington State covid-19 emergency declaration, it has nothing to do with State Reopening Phases or Federal Benefit Extension guidelines. Recent post and reply on the subject.

  • Possible Batch Processing Issue delaying some payments ~24-48hrs.

See this poll

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This is the Weekly Thread! Please post here.

------Foreword-----

It is important that users have a Post in which to comment and share their questions and experiences. It is also important to me as a moderator so that I can track the development, propagation or disappearance of issues related to Paid/Processing/Posting; which currently is very very was* difficult because of the volume and number of duplicates, and the lack of information provided by users who do not include their claim type and bank.

I urge you, when posting, to include your bank and your claim type.

I urge you, as much as you can, anticipate delays for weeks with holidays.

Request for separate threads will be entertained, if you can send me a direct message with a good reason that is backed by some sort of evidence.

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The most consistently accurate and applicable is in The Archive and The Roadmap

-----Weekly Claim Questions------

NEW 4/12: ESD's site for Weekly Claim Questions - Reporting Earnings

NEW 4/12: ESD's site for Weekly PUA claim Questions

NEW 4/12: ESD's site for Restarting your Claim

ESD's site for Waiting Week/ When Will Payments Start

NEW 4/12: What if I didn't Work this Week?

2 jobs? Paid Late? Reporting Complex Earnings

Added 7/5 What if I wasn't AA for 2 days or less last week? WBA gets prorated, no Add'l fact-finding

Use a Password Manager, otherwise you might Lock Your Account and have to contact Technical Support

Added 4/22 Traveling and Claiming: "Able and Available"? Cannot Mark Yes to AA

Added 7/7 Website won't work? Call in the Claim, or do it later - it will stay there for 5 weeks

-----Processing/Paid/Posted-----

  • After a Weekly claim is submitted, it first says “Processing-Web ￦ ", then¥ “Processing”, then “Paid”, and it takes 48 hours on average to post in an account, if the amount is significant, refer to this post. Related Post
  • The average time between when the payment shows "Paid" and when it appears in a bank account is dependent on the bank.

Weekly claims that are filed by web are generally all processed sometime between Tuesday evening and Wednesday evening. So if you filed a a claim last Wednesday it will probably not be processed until the following Tuesday.

(￦) If you did your weekly claim via the web. Weekly Claim status is "Processing - IVR"? Normal: You filed by phone IVR means Interactive Voice Response

(¥) This happens when the submission moves from "Submitted" to "Processed", within Online Activity

------Known Issues------

3. Appearance of "Waiting Week" on some pre-existing claims

_______(1/9) WA House Minority Leader (R) J.T. Wilcox did not approve the Extension of 20.21; the WA Governor's 10th successive proclamation which waived the waiting week, by sending the Governor a letter the day the extension lapsed Contact him directly at [jt.wilcox@leg.wa.gov](mailto:jt.wilcox@leg.wa.gov). So on Jan 7, ESD Policy Director Dan Zeitlin filed an Emergency Rule, which appears to have no end date. It is believed that due to no rule prohibiting a waiting week between Dec 28-Jan 7, that some pre-existing claims erroneously began to show this. See this post and comments.

Update (1/23) New FAQ from ESD ON Waiting Week

11. (New 1/19) Changing your address/phone number/bank account will likely stop payments, and require an Identity confirmation that may take 6-8 weeks. (Because of a continuation of an Audit) See above in Best Practices for changing eServices notices/letters from Mailed to Electronic. See this post

5. (NEW AS of 1-11) Disappearance of Weekly Claim Prompt Link. As suggested in this post and reply, it is solvable manually by calling the call center. <Will Likely be Updated>. (New 1/25: Additional Info: Details of Resolution call) Another example (2/11) Another example 3/2

  1. After Potential New Claim Filing on 6/12: Issue recurring

-----Roadmap Sections Expanded Above-----

Weekly Claim Subsection

------Perspective--------

We are all on government benefits; this is not an employee employer relationship where we always get paid at the exact same time every week; they do not have the same responsibility to pay at a predetermined time and it's unreasonable to hold them to that standard. They will get around to paying us when they get around to paying us, unfortunately. Holding that expectation is a false hope, and being constantly disappointed is not a productive thing.

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u/Wongfop The Dude Abides🎳 Aug 10 '21

Well I didn't feel like making a new thread for this, so this seems as good a place as any to put this.

I'm finally free! Today marked my 5th day at a full-time job I started last week. I decided not to try and file this weeks claim (despite having like 5 job search activities done with the multiple phone calls and interviews I had for my new job), so there should be a nice even transition from unemployment to employed.

I was unemployed for a grand total of 1 year, 4 months, and 20 days. I'll probably stick around quietly until my claim fully lapses (which is what, 3 weeks?).

It's been a pleasure suffering together with you all, at the hands of the ESD. This community has helped me in countless ways from good hard info as well as reassurance from others that I'm not alone in this, to the memes and mutual loathing we all have for the ESD.

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u/SoThenIThought_ Admin for WEBA.Law, WA Unemployment Benefits Aug 10 '21

until my claim fully lapses (which is what, 3 weeks?).

November 3rd 2021 is the last day ESD can ask for your job search log

You have made some instrumental addition to this community and we appreciate everything you've done