You can collect unemployment while working as a freelancer, though what you earn will reduce your benefits (potentially to zero, if you earn enough). For unemployment insurance (UI)  purposes, it doesn't matter if you are working as an individual freelancer, through an LLC, or as a contrct or part-time employee--the income from work still counts against your benefits.Subtract $30 from your weekly income that week. Multiply the remainder by 0.67 (basically 2/3). Subtract the product from your weekly benefits. The result is your partial benefits that week.Say you are getting $300/week benefits and earn $270 as a freelancer. Subtract $30 from $270: $240. Multiply that by 0.67 (we'll use 2/3 for simplicity): $160. Subtract $160 from $300: $140. You'll get to keep your earnings that week plus get $140 in UI.