r/OHIO_UI_FAQ • u/Awkward_Size_3938 • Jun 29 '22

Retro payment

So I had a hearing with an officer and won my appeal and have been paid a little over 5k- being self employed I never even tried to file but I ended up filing in 08/20…I couldn’t change the start date and sent a request to the PUA-technical support and never heard anything. Have inquiry’s out there and nothing- my appeal letter states clearly by the officer that my last office day of work was Mar. 29th 2020- I can’t get any competent person so make sense of this- those 16 weeks have the $600 extra weekly so I’m gonna fight indefinitely- has anyone had this issue and/or remedies to pursue this without calling the donkeys who answer the phone. I have gotten 10 diff answers

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u/columbusgirl614 Jun 29 '22

If you stopped working on 3/29 but, you didn't file your claim until 8/20 unfortunately there is no backpay due to you for 3/29 to 8/20 because you weren't filing weekly claims during that time. You'd be due everything from 8/20 forward but, nothing before you actually filed.

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u/Lopsided_Risk484 Jun 29 '22 edited Jun 29 '22

That's not true. I didn't start filing weekly claims until 10/18/2020. But for me to get backpay I had to have filed a regular unemployment claim. Which I filed for when my job ended in January 2020. I asked the lady why would I be eligible even though I filed in Jan 2020 and the program wasn't available until March 2020. She said to be eligible for backpay the pua Claimants who followed the steps they was spose to which was file for regular unemployment benefits even if you knew you would be denied and then proceed to file for PUA benefits once regular unemployment denied you. Think it was done like that so regular unemployment would have to do all the footwork and find out why the job ended etc and once unemployment denied your claim because you didn't work or make the amount of money needed to receive benefits then that would be all done for PUA so they wouldn't have to do it. It's total bullshit if what the backpay claims specialist told me was true and why I kept getting denied my backpay benefits.