El_Mero_Mero
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If you are unable to work for a long time, or for the rest of your life, then you can be granted disability.
I am presently not in that situation, but I do have an issue that has rendered it "impossible" for me to be "available" for work for at least 3 weeks.
I am in New York City and receiving unemployment due to Covid-issues shutting down my job since March 2020. When you certify your Unemployment Benefits, they ask you to state whether you are "available" for work or not.
Things are different during a pandemic obviously, so they probably are not even as diligent about checking on whether you are actively applying for work (as you should be).
Currently, I am not "available". I never applied for Unemployment before this whole Covid thing, so I want to make sure that I do everything as legal and on the up-and-up as possible (I don't need those type of fraud problems).
My main question is, can you still certify for your weekly benefits if you have a temporary disability? Like, for example, if you were only going to be "disabled" for 1-3 weeks, it doesn't really make sense to go through the trouble of applying for disability. It wouldn't be worker's compensation either, if the injury didn't occur on the work-site or even on the way to/from work (since there hasn't been any work-site for me for some time).
I know that I may be overthinking it, and I'm still probably going to certify for the benefits during these 3 weeks anyway, but I just wanted to know the legalities and kind of "human-resources"-type responses to such a situation.
Thanks
If you are unable to work for a long time, or for the rest of your life, then you can be granted disability.
I am presently not in that situation, but I do have an issue that has rendered it "impossible" for me to be "available" for work for at least 3 weeks.
I am in New York City and receiving unemployment due to Covid-issues shutting down my job since March 2020. When you certify your Unemployment Benefits, they ask you to state whether you are "available" for work or not.
Things are different during a pandemic obviously, so they probably are not even as diligent about checking on whether you are actively applying for work (as you should be).
Currently, I am not "available". I never applied for Unemployment before this whole Covid thing, so I want to make sure that I do everything as legal and on the up-and-up as possible (I don't need those type of fraud problems).
My main question is, can you still certify for your weekly benefits if you have a temporary disability? Like, for example, if you were only going to be "disabled" for 1-3 weeks, it doesn't really make sense to go through the trouble of applying for disability. It wouldn't be worker's compensation either, if the injury didn't occur on the work-site or even on the way to/from work (since there hasn't been any work-site for me for some time).
I know that I may be overthinking it, and I'm still probably going to certify for the benefits during these 3 weeks anyway, but I just wanted to know the legalities and kind of "human-resources"-type responses to such a situation.
Thanks