Coronavirus: Catch in unemployment program costly to gig workers
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Loree Levy, deputy director of the California Employment Development Department, which oversees the unemployment system, agreed that the CARES Act leaves no room for interpretation about who can receive the pandemic assistance. Steven Wilkin, an electronic musician who lives in Los Angeles and also has worked as a ride-share driver, said he “completely got hosed on the PUA” because of W-2 pay that made up just 3.7% of his 2019 income.
or through phone calls to its call center — that they could file for regular unemployment benefits and then either cancel them or update them with their self-employment income when the PUA opened up.“Nope, sorry, your W-2 income disqualifies you and there’s nothing you can do about it,” Wilkin said. “I’m so upset by the whole thing. I woke up at 3:30 this morning because I have so much anxiety about it.
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