>>I believe (unless it's changed) that this is not an either/or situation. IOW, you can still collect unemployment up to a certain extent even if you are working ... particularly this sort of substitute teaching job, where it's really only part-time and low income.
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>>~~Bonnie
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>As of a couple of years ago, that is correct............and I also haven't heard of it being changed.
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>IIRC, you need to report any income earned during the period for which you are applying for benefits. IIRC, there is also NOT a one-to-one tradeoff in benefits. I THINK there is a sliding scale so that if you earned the full amount of your benefit, you would get no unemployment, but earning (for example) one day's teaching fee of $150 would reduce unemployment by $75.

Yeah, that's what I remember. I've never collected unemployment in CA (about to do it in WA though), but I lived in CA for 6 years, and that was my recollection of the process.

~~Bonnie