Originally Posted by
AeroEnvoy
Well at this point I’m not interested in pursuing unemployment anymore because I wasn’t counting on unemployment anyway but it does concern me that if I ever really do need it I may have trouble obtaining it from California or Texas since I’m not eligible in my own state,that I pay taxes in, because I work in Texas.
Not sure how Texas handles COLLECTING for unemployment, but it is essentially an insurance I believe, and not a tax assessment that the employer pays into. Your taxes are assessed based on where you live, not work, so I would think unemployment would be the same, but again, not sure. I do know that employers have to pay a matching tax on FICA, but that is federal. It could still be assessed on that and distributed to the states.
While the aviation industry, particularly airlines, are an extreme example, there are plenty of people around the country that live in a state other than they work. Usually just much closer in proximity.