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As part of my continuing efforts to help the members of APC, I would like to gather information about whether you have been furloughed and applied for unemployment benefits. Please do not post to this thread, but send me a PM with the following:

Airline
Date started work
Date of furlough
State you applied
Date you applied
Denied or Granted?
If denied, reason of denial
Date of letter denying you
Did you appeal the denial?

Addendum: Thanks to all who responded so far. To those who are receiving benefits, you do not need any legal advice from me. Just continue to file your claim each week, and follow all the other rules, many of which are arcane and probably don't even make sense. I want to get an idea if there is a pattern of grants and denials. For example, if people furloughed from one airline are consistently being denied, there is a problem, and we should work together to root this out.

If you applied and you were denied, I definitely want to hear from you. You have appeal rights that I want you to take advantage of within the time limits set by the department.

Thank you very much. My claim wasn't denied but its nice that you are going out of your way to help those who are having problems.

It must be something in the water out here in the PAC NW.:D

applied in VA after Gemini bit hte dust. Seems to have been approved. Still looking into training grants. Anyone with experience, plese chime in!

I'm not sure what you mean by it "seems to have been approved." You get either a yes or no. If you don't hear anything or you are left hanging, you should probably start calling around. These things are time sensitive and you have that one week waiting period.

If VA is anything like WA, you have to apply for training grants almost at the same time or shortly thereafter your initial claim. In WA, the first chunk of money for training is called Commissioner Approved Training (CAT). Within X number of weeks, you should also apply for what is inexplicably called Training Benefits. These are for extensions to the CAT.

And if you are interested in a Type Rating through WIA, look at my other thread in Flight Training for more information.

I'm not sure what you mean by it "seems to have been approved." You get either a yes or no. If you don't hear anything or you are left hanging, you should probably start calling around. These things are time sensitive and you have that one week waiting period.

If VA is anything like WA, you have to apply for training grants almost at the same time or shortly thereafter your initial claim. In WA, the first chunk of money for training is called Commissioner Approved Training (CAT). Within X number of weeks, you should also apply for what is inexplicably called Training Benefits. These are for extensions to the CAT.

And if you are interested in a Type Rating through WIA, look at my other thread in Flight Training for more information.

Will check it out.

VA has approved, just seeing if MA will - I think their rate is higher, but as it was a VA company that paid UI there...

Bureaucrats...