@CoolMusic wrote:
My initial claim was denied because my benefit (way less than expected) was below my earnings for 4 straight weeks.
I have since refiled, and am waiting to see if my claim will be accepted. I'm in UT, and it is my understanding is that any gross earnings will be deducted from benefits. As I'm required not to turn down available work, the trick, best I can tell, is to take some IC jobs, but not so many that gross pay exceeds benefits.
I think you don't have a very good understanding of how this works.
I am a full time self employed mystery shopper. It is my sole source of income (kinda. I own 1/3 of an LLC that owns rental property but it operates at a tax loss). Therefore, I am both employer and employee. There is a strong argument that mystery shops being available on a job board is not at all an offer of work. But even if it is as an employer I am unwilling to subject my employee to exposure to Covid-19. On top of that, as an employer, there is not enough work out there to justify paying an employee, me, without losing money. Since I don't want to lose money, nor do I want to endanger my employee's health, I, as an employer, have not entered into any business agreements and therefore have no work to offer my employee, me.
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