You give notice, but your employer declines your resignation and fires you on the spot.
What happens to your unemployment benefits?
Unemployment determined I was eligible for benefits, and accordingly I received benefits checks.
But after January 1, the checks stopped coming, because my old job told unemployment that I quit.
What recourse do I have?
How can I fight to get my unemployment benefits?
My savings are dwindling and theres no end to this situation in sight.
Thank you for any recommendations you may have.
State regulations can matter quite a bit in determining how unemployment benefits are actually administered.
The state unemployment agency in Massachusetts is the Department of Unemployment Assistance; you could visit onlinehere.
Given the circumstances you describe, you should have received a notice of disqualification when your benefits suddenly stopped.
If you havent received one yet, call and request it, she adds.
(Note that Epstein Gluck is not offering specific legal counsel here.
Its possible you may want to talk to a lawyer again; more on that below.)
Your former employer is asked similar questions.
Benefits are doled out, or not, accordingly.
The other possibility is, to me at least, more of a bummer.
With 60 days notice, you announced you were quitting as of January 1.
A day or two later, your employer gave you the boot.
For those 58 or so days, you were eligible for unemployment benefits.
In a sense, your employer is trying to have it both ways.
Pursuing an appeal
Does that mean you simply lose your benefits?
Its definitely possible, but not certain.
Thats why you should absolutely pursue an appeal.
And, perhaps, consider talking to an attorney again.
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