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Okay so out of the blue I just got this Fact Finding questionnaire from PUA about my past employment. It says:
The Continued Assistance Act requires that individuals receiving Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) prove a recent attachment to the labor force. This requires that you submit documentation to the Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) to prove you were previously employed or self-employed or that you had planned to start employment or self-employment during the requested time-period.
If you do not provide the required documentation, you will no longer be eligible for PUA. If you have received PUA benefits, your benefits will be stopped, and you will have to repay all or a portion of the benefits that you received.
Based on your claim filing date of 4/21/2020, you are required to submit documentation for the 2019 calendar year. This is referred to as your ādocumentation period.ā You must submit the documentation by 5/17/2021.
tl;dr since I started unemployment in April 2020, they want proof of employment from 2019 or else they'll cut off my benefits and make me pay it back.
The issue is, I wasn't working in 2019. I started my self-employment in January 2020. But it sounds like if I just answer "no" to all the questions they're going to make me repay everything they've given me.
What am I supposed to do here? I've called them countless times, sent countless messages, in almost a year I've never been able to get a hold of anyone at UIA.
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But why would they? The states want that money spent in their state to boost the local economy. The states are getting money from Uncle Sam to pay PUA. If they donāt spend it, it goes back the the US treasury, the states donāt keep it.