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This is for when all claims filed under a new unemployment claim are marked disqualified. There isn't even a waiting week marked. There are no letters in this claim to describe why this is happening... Because it is an ongoing disqualification from a PREVIOUS claim and the letters are in a previous claim....This is how to fix it

>^([It's from a previous claim. So NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS CLAIM. Nothing at all. Nothing about your job separation. Nothing about job search activities. Nothing about when you filed the weekly claim. Nothing to do with this claim at all.])

You probably have a disqualification from a previous claim that is ongoing.

A PREVIOUS CLAIM. Not the current claim. So you'll be looking in older claims

>Hey.... Read this stuff slowly, thrice. Most of you have been struggling for a long time until you got here. Don't make it hard on yourself. Don't make it hard on me to help you. This is literally the most commonly insufficiently read or insufficiently understood post in all of this unemployment stuff that I do - because you guys are so desperate and in such an incredible panic. Please help me reverse the trend because some of these conversations are such a pain in the ass when people make up what I what they think I wrote in their request for help... Because of panic/desperation.

^([You can either accept this help and I can personally walk you through material that I have gone over thousands of times with a success rate of above 95% and you get a decision in a week or less, or you ignore this and you're waiting indefinitely with no confidence and no competence about if or when you will be able to fix this. Two most common causes of this are typically not resolved by only calling.])

99% These are not resolved by appeals, Please read all of this information including the link below

That is why the decision is not listed in your current claim. >>>It is listed in a previous claim.<<< It is probably listed in a determination letter

#-------------- Troubleshooting -----------------

1. You need to find the determination letter. You can find that by clicking on >>>NOTICES /LETTERS<<< in the old claim. Click All Letters. This is in descending chronological order.

You want to find something with the title

Determination Letter

Other things in here that are not that and not helpful

Re-evaluate Claim Letter
Monetary Determination Letter
PEUC Redetermination Letter
Data Privacy Sharing Notice
...literally anything at all other than what I just wrote above. Determination letter. . .
1. You found the Determination letter? Where does it say which of the below types this is?

Page 1, middle:

---Able and Available: Ongoing disqualification: Medical Issue--- click this to see an example

>There are other types within this category: travel or vacation where you did not set an end date, lack of transportation where you did not tell them that it was fixed, school attendance where you were taking 12 or more credits and you never told them when that ended, etc. Do you see the theme? You have to tell them when things end.

This is the law that governs all of these, the one that says that the disqualification will continue until that circumstance no longer exists... And you have to tell them when it no longer exists. WAC 192-140-200

FIXED BY PROVIDING RESPONSES/DOCUMENTATION. NOT FIXED BY CALLING. NOT FIXED BY WAITING. WILL NOT AUTOMATICALLY RESOLVE EVER UNLESS YOU ACTUALLY ADDRESS THIS. YOU'LL BE BACK HERE 5 YEARS FROM NOW WITH THE SAME PROBLEM IF YOU DON'T FIX THIS. some of these. Not all. But some. Do require an appeal but that is very rare

>!^(ǝʇɐldɯǝʇ pǝƃolɐʇɐɔ ɐ sɐ sıɥʇ ǝʌɐɥ ʎpɐǝɹlɐ ʎlqɐqoɹd ı ˙dlǝɥ ɹoɟ ǝɯ ʞsɐ os ˙ǝnssı uoıʇɐʇuǝɯnɔop ɐ sı sıɥʇ - ǝɔıʌɹǝs ɹǝɯoʇsnɔ llɐɔ ʎlɯopuɐɹ ʇsnɾ ʇ,uop ˙sıɥʇ pɐǝɹǝɹ puɐ ǝlʇʇıl ɐ uʍop ʍols ʇsnɾ ˙ǝɹǝɥ ɯoɹɟ ɔıuɐd/ʎʇǝıxuɐ ǝɥʇ lǝǝɟ uɐɔ ı ˙ʇɐǝɹƃ ƃuıop ǝɹ,noʎ ˙ʎǝH)!<

---Re-qualify Issue: Voluntary Quit Without Good Cause--- click this to see an example

>There are not multiple types. This is just for people who quit who didn't give enough information or didn't know what information to give and therefore they could not be found eligible. After the quit that was adjudicated as not eligible, you have to go back to work for 7 weeks and earned seven times your weekly benefit amount to clear this. So if you haven't been back to work since then then there's no way to fix this. If you have, then the agent needs to manually clear it. It's not automatic. The waiting game is not going to work. It's not going to automatically fix itself based on anything to do with your current claim.

This is the law WAC 192-150-085

FIXED BY CALLING. NOT FIXED BY APPEALING. NOT FIXED BY SENDING MESSAGES. NOT FIXED BY WAITING. UNLIKELY TO BE AUTOMATICALLY RESOLVED.

>!^(˙dlǝɥ ɹoɟ ǝɯ ʞsɐ ʇsnɾ 'pǝɯɹıɟuoɔ ʇı ʇǝƃ oʇ pǝǝu noʎ ɟı ˙ʇı pɐǝɹǝɹ ˙uʍop ʍols ʇsnɾ ˙ʇɐɥʇ ʎɐs ʇ,usǝop ʇı ˙ǝɹǝɥ ɯoɹɟ ɔıuɐd ǝɥʇ lǝǝɟ uɐɔ ı ˙ʇınb noʎ ʎɥʍ ʇnoqɐ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos ǝpıʌoɹd oʇ ǝʌɐɥ noʎ ʞuıɥʇ noʎ ¿ʇɥƃıɹ ʇɐɥʇ pɐǝɹsıɯ noʎ ˙ʇɐǝɹƃ ƃuıop ǝɹ,noʎ ˙ʎǝɥ)!<

---Failure to Respond: E g. Identity Verification --- click this to see an example

> There are other types within this category; They could ask you for information about your jobs separation, identity verification, if you were able and available for a given week, earnings reporting from a current or previous employer, retirement pay / withdrawal, severance, school attendance, PUA documents Required...etc. For every and all requests, if you do not respond to that request, this happens.

There is an entire chapter of laws mostly about failure to respond about different types of things, WAC 192-140

You may have more than one of each of these: You may have been asked for multiple things and didn't respond. You may have multiple able and available this qualifications. At least you can only have one re-qualify issue...

FIXED BY PROVIDING DOCUMENTATION. NOT FIXED BY CALLING. NOT FIXED BY WAITING. WILL NOT RESOLVE AUTOMATICALLY EVER. NOT FIXED BY APPEALING. I have guidance or templates for pretty much all of these. None of this is public, you have to ask.

If it is not clear, send me a picture of it on chat or email or text. Once we know if it is a failure to respond, or an able and available issue then the solution in number three will change.

>!^(ǝɔuɐpınƃ uı ʇno ǝʌɐƃ ʇsnɾ ı ʇɐɥʍ ʇɐǝdǝɹ oʇ ǝʌɐɥ oʇ ʇuɐʍ ʇ,uop ı ʇnq dlǝɥ oʇ ʇuɐʍ op ı 'uıɐƃɐ ɟɟnʇs sıɥʇ llɐ ʇɐǝdǝɹ oʇ ǝʌɐɥ ʇ,uop ı ɟı sıɥʇ xıɟ oʇ ɹǝısɐǝ ʇol ɐ ǝq oʇ ƃuıoƃ s,ʇı ˙ʍou lıʇun ƃuıɥʇʎɹǝʌǝ ƃuıpɐǝɹǝɹ ɹǝpısuoɔ ˙ɔıuɐd ǝɥʇ uı uǝɥʍ puɐʇsɹǝpun oʇ pɹɐɥ ʎllɐǝɹ ǝq oʇ ƃuıoƃ sı sıɥʇ ˙ǝsuǝp ɹǝdns sɐʍ sıɥʇ ¿ƃuıɥʇɐǝɹq ʇnoɥʇıʍ sıɥʇ ɟo llɐ pɐǝɹ ʇsnɾ ʎllɐǝɹ noʎ pıp)!<

1. Do not just randomly call customer service just because you found it. Two of the three of these types require you provide documentation, which you cannot do on the phone. So please continue reading...

>!At this point. You don't really need more information. You probably understand it. But guess what. Below is another round of this. Because I am so desperate to stop this ongoing trend where people don't read it. So the post is really huge because I'm trying to get you to read it so desperately. So if you get it and you don't need to read it again, then don't. For the able and available and failure to respond, you really got to ask me for help because a lot of these templates and catalog guidance are no longer public because people were misusing them. I make you have to ask me for help!<

####------- Failure to respond/Able and Available/Requalify law-------

Two major ways that there is an ongoing disqualification is

####-------- Failure to Respond ---------

Failure to respond. They asked you about something. You never responded, this causes you to be disqualified until such time as you finally respond and provide the information. Most common requests are identity verification, employer information (earnings), retirement pay, school attendance. These are not resolved by appealing, you have to find out what they were requesting and give it to them, often requiring calling customer service

Maybe in a previous claim, they asked you for

updated earnings information from an employer?
retirement pay?
School attendance?
Able and available as it applies to vacation/travel or using a VPN?
identity verification?
Severance information?

>This is about documentation. Not randomly calling. Not randomly sending messages. You need to provide documentation that answers what they were asking for. I would be happy to help you figure this out, I probably already have a template.

####---------- Ongoing Able and Available Issue -------

Ongoing able and available issue. Like you were traveling or you had an illness or disability or in school at 12 credits or more, during a previous claim and no end date for that issue was ever set (meaning, you never told them when they stopped so .. It's an ongoing disqualification) maybe the last thing you did with ESD was a PAID LEAVE CLAIM. So the last thing that you effectively told them is you cannot work. So if that's the last thing you told them, then that's all they know. Because you have to tell them when it stops. These are not resolved by appealing, you just have to set an end date to this issue

>This is about documentation. Not randomly calling. Not randomly sending messages. You need to provide documentation or something to demonstrate when the circumstance ended. I would be happy to help you figure this out, I probably already have a template.

>- Let's say you were previously on a paid leave claim. Let's say it was for a broken bone. The medical certification form that you had your medical provider do stated a specific range of time that you would be out of work. And the end date of that on that form was in the future, relative to when they actually signed it/wrote on it. But was it? Did it actually get resolved? Because nothing was probably given to ESD on or after the date that it was supposedly / assumably resolved. Exactly. You're getting it. You do. > >>- You need a document from on or after that assumed end date that says that you're clear to work, at least in a suitable capacity/modified work. What document? It's effectively the same one. The same medical certification form. Why would it be different? Sometimes they'll accept the one on the paid leave site. Sometimes to make you call and ask them for it. They can email it to you or just put it in your online account. Have had multiple reports of both, with a similar success/failure rate, And I haven't seen an actual process described, and state law doesn't specifically say so I honestly don't know which they want / prefer/require / demand/ rope-swing into-a-hot-tub. Oh good. So you are still paying attention. That's pretty impressive at this point. Good job

^(... There is a third possibility but it is extremely rare...)

####---------- RE-QUALIFY LAW ---------

RE-QUALIFY LAW: When you quit without good cause, the determination letter that you received in your older claim contained a law that required you to re-qualify with new wages: have returned to work for a minimum of 7 weeks and earned seven times your weekly benefit amount. There have been a few cases where there's a glitch within ESD and you have been back to work for way longer than 7 weeks and earned way more than 7x Your previous weekly benefit.

>This is only resolved by calling or otherwise talking to a customer service rep. They effectively press a button and accept the wages you earned since this letter was sent as satisfying the re-qualify requirements and this is removed immediately. So you should probably read....

####----- CAVEAT: REQUESTED STANDBY, NOT APPROVED AND NOT DOING JOBS SEARCH ACTIVITIES ------

WHEN APPROVED. When approved, stand by only absolves you of doing the job search activities once it's approved and only for the time period that's approved. You are not exempt from job search activities if your employer applies or if you apply to standby but it's not actually approved. A lot of times you guys have had your employer request standby or you requested standby and it's not approved and you just stop doing job search activities. It's going to take them in non-zero amount of time to process the standby request. So in between when you submit the standby request and when it's actually approved guess what... Either you stop filing weekly claims or you keep doing the minimum job search activities, because if you keep doing weekly claims and you report no to the job search activities. That you didn't do them. But you're not actually approved for standby then all your claims are going to say disqualified. And you're going to get a letter for each weekly claim that says that you're not searching for work. Because you're not. Because you're not approved.

And this is a manifestation of not actually reading the job search activity list because this sounds like a whole shitload of work as compared to just doing a 30 second elevator pitch, labor market research on esd, or the one that was really common during the pandemic that's still here, links or screenshots of YouTube videos as long as It's not the exact same video again and again. You should really look at the list if you haven't already.

So I actually don't recommend standby because it creates more problems. It also takes a ton of work. And you really have to pay attention to the time frame that is actually authorized by standby. Or you could just spend one minute 30 seconds to do the minimum activities each week that could not possibly jeopardize an incoming job start date.

####------ Roadmap Info/Initial eligibility Post-----

You can read more about this by reading the material from the initial eligibility post that deals with this:

---Weekly Claims, Disqualified or Pending; Eligibility Issue from this Claim or Previous Claim---

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All Claims are Marked DISQUALIFIED? You have an ongoing disqualification from a previous claim. Here's how to fix it