California Code of Regulations › Title 22 - Social Security › Division 1 - Employment Development Department › Subdivision 1 - Director of Employment Development › Division 1 - Unemployment and Disability Compensation › Part 1 - Unemployment Compensation › Chapter 5 - UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION BENEFITS › Article 3 - FILING, DETERMINATION, AND PAYMENT OF UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION BENEFIT CLAIMS › Section 1326-2 - New Claim for Unemployment Insurance Benefits -Filing and Contents

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) "New Claim"
						  means an application for the establishment of a benefit year and a computation
						  of the maximum benefits payable and the weekly rate. (For a general description
						  of the claims filing procedures for unemployment benefits, see Section
						  1326-1 of these
						  regulations.)
(b) Any person who is
						  an unemployed individual, as defined in Sections
						  1252 or
						  1279.5 of the code, may file a new
						  claim. (See Sections
						  1252-1,
						  1252.1-1, and
						  1252.2-1 of these regulations.)
						  The claimant shall file the new claim by contacting the department and shall
						  set forth:
(1) His or her first and last name,
						  and middle initial if applicable.
(2) His or her social security account
						  number, and any other names and social security account numbers by which the
						  claimant is or was known.
(A) The department
						  may require the claimant to verify the social security account number as being
						  the one issued to him or her by the Social Security Administration if the
						  information available to the department indicates that the social security
						  account number presented by the claimant may belong to another individual, is
						  not a valid social security account number, or was never issued by the Social
						  Security Administration, or that the wages shown in the base period of the
						  claim may belong to another individual.
(B) If the department requires a claimant to
						  verify the social security account number which he or she has provided to the
						  department during the claim application, the claimant must submit verification
						  of his or her social security account number through the Social Security
						  Administration, or he or she may submit to the department a copy of his or her
						  annual statement issued to him or her by the Social Security
						  Administration.
(3) His
						  or her date of birth, including month, day, and year.
(4) His or her gender.
(5) His or her current mailing
						  address.
(6) His or her current
						  residence address.
(7) His or her
						  driver's license number or identification card number, provided that the
						  driver's license or identification card was issued by a local, state, or
						  federal agency, or a foreign government, and the card contains his or her full
						  name, date of birth, and photograph.
(8) The date he or she last worked for his or
						  her most recent employer.
(9) The
						  reason he or she is no longer working for his or her most recent employer. The
						  department shall promptly notify the individual's most recent employer of the
						  reason the individual has given as to the reason he or she is no longer working
						  for his or her most recent employer. The department may use the claimant's
						  statement as to the reason he or she is no longer working for his or her most
						  recent employer to assign the individual an appropriate seek work
						  plan.
(10) The name and mailing
						  address of his or her most recent employer, except in cases where due to
						  reasons beyond the claimant's control, the claimant does not know the name or
						  address of his or her most recent employer. For example, the claimant may have
						  no record of wages paid, or his or her most recent employer may now be out of
						  business, the employer may have moved, or the employer may have died.
(11) The name or names of his or her base
						  period employer or employers; the estimated wages that individual earned during
						  the base period; and the approximate periods of employment for that individual
						  with the base period employer or employers. If the information available to the
						  department indicates that the wages reported for that individual may not belong
						  to that individual, the department may require that individual to provide
						  information to substantiate that he or she earned the reported wages
(12) Whether he or she in the 19 months
						  preceding the filing of a new claim served in the United States armed forces,
						  or worked for an agency of the State of California, of another state or of the
						  federal government, or worked for an employer in another state.
(13) Whether he or she has filed a claim for
						  unemployment insurance or disability insurance against California, against
						  another state or against the federal government in the past 24
						  months.
(14) Whether he or she is a
						  member of a union, and if so, the name and number of the union local, and
						  whether he or she is registered as out of work with his or her union.
(15) Whether he or she is unemployed or
						  working part time and knows the law requires true and complete answers, and
						  that he or she may be required to register for work (as defined in Section
						  1251-1 of these
						  regulations).
(16) A statement that
						  the claimant is a citizen or national of the United States and, if not, that
						  the claimant is in a satisfactory immigration status, as defined in Section
						  1326-13(c)(1) of
						  these regulations. The claimant shall also make the statement set forth in
						  Section 1264-1(d) of
						  these regulations, as to his or her citizenship or immigration status during
						  the base period.
(17) Such other
						  information as the department may require.