Samuels, a PhD student at the University of Malaga, had been earning income from U.S.-based gigs as a freelance writer. When that work dried up last March, he applied for unemployment.
But the New York Department of Labor denied his claim. It is now trying to claw back more than $5,000 in payments the state thinks were made in error.
Samuels and others like him are caught at the nexus of two competing and confounding forces: a state requirement that workers be physically present and able to work in the U.S. to collect unemployment, and a virus that made it impossible and unsafe to travel.
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Over 4.6 million New Yorkers filed for unemployment in 2020, when COVID-19 ravaged the economy.
Now, as federal programs are about to expire, some residents don t have their jobs back.
Others are having surprise issues with the unemployment system, which was overwhelmed with claimants in 2020.
When Coree Spencer’s catering jobs evaporated last March, she had no idea how long she’d be out of work.
Nearly a year later, most catering companies haven’t reopened for business, with large events or weddings postponed or canceled because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The New York City resident, who has been collecting unemployment benefits since last spring, wondered whether it makes sense to go back to school instead of waiting for a catering job to come up.