New York Unemployment

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Really made a difference, save me time and energy from going to a local office for making the call.


Worth not wasting your time calling for hours.

Was a bit nervous or untrusting at first, but my calls went thru. First time the wait was a bit long but their customer chat line on their page was helpful and put me at ease that I would receive my call. Today my call dropped because of EDD and Claimyr heard my concern on the same chat and another call was made within the hour.


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An incredibly helpful service! Got me connected to a CA EDD agent without major hassle (outside of EDD's agents dropping calls – which Claimyr has free protection for). If you need to file a new claim and can't do it online, pay the $ to Claimyr to get the process started. Absolutely worth it!


Consistent,frustration free, quality Service.

Used this service a couple times now. Before I'd call 200 times in less than a weak frustrated as can be. But using claimyr with a couple hours of waiting i was on the line with an representative or on hold. Dropped a couple times but each reconnected not long after and was mission accomplished, thanks to Claimyr.


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I tried for weeks to get thru to EDD PFL program with no luck. I gave this a try thinking it may be a scam. OMG! It worked and They got thru within an hour and my claim is going to finally get paid!! I upgraded to the $60 call. Best $60 spent!

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Why does everyone run to reddit first instead of just calling unemployment? 🤦‍♂️ Literally a 5 minute phone call would answer this definitively.

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Fair point, I take it back. The phone system is trash.

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Use claimyr.com - only way I've been able to actually reach an agent in the past 6 months

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This happened exactly one year after you first applied for benefits, right? That's when the system automatically evaluates you for a new benefit year. Totally normal.

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No, actually I've only been on unemployment for about 6 months, since April.

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Ah, then it's definitely the Extended Benefits program. Still normal, just different trigger.

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Just want to flag that SOMETIMES the partial unemployment system works better if you use Firefox instead of Chrome. Something about the form submission works differently. At least that was my experience when I filed back in october.

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Has anyone had issues with the partial unemployment calculator? When I try to use it on the NY unemployment site it gives me wildly different numbers each time. Wondering if I'm doing something wrong.

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its not you, its the website 🙄 total garbage coding on that calculator. I ended up just calling and having them calculate it for me, was way more accurate

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I heard from someone who works at NYSDOL (friend of a friend) that their computer system had a major update that went wrong and affected about 20% of all active claims. They're working on a fix but it's taking forever because their tech is from like the 1980s 😩

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not surprised their systems are ancient. have you seen their website? looks like it was designed when aol was still popular lol

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Why is nobody talking about contacting our representatives about this?? Call your state assembly person and state senator! That's what I did and their office contacted unemployment on my behalf. Had my issue resolved within 48 hours. These offices deal with constituent services and can often get through to agencies when we can't.

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I'll try this too! Who did you talk to when you called their office?

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Just called the main office number and asked to speak with whoever handles constituent services for unemployment issues. They took all my info and followed up.

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sounds like one of those ads that pops up everywhere. anyone ACTUALLY try this claimyr thing? hard to trust anything when it comes to unemployment help

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No way, for real? Might try it then cause I'm going insane with this phone system

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Yeah for real. They just keep calling until they get through. It's like having someone else do the annoying part for you.

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not falling for another unemployment 'hack'... these never work and the system is designed to make people give up. been trying since march with no luck

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I felt the same way but I did finally get through using OP's persistence method. Took me 4 days of trying but it worked. Don't give up!

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did u try doing a password reset through the 'forgot password' link? sometimes even tho the old password should work, the system forces you to create a brand new one that's different from any you've used before.

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Yep, tried that 3 times with completely new passwords. Still getting the same error message 😫

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i stg the new york unemployment website is run by a hamster on a wheel. same thing happened to my sister last month - she ended up having to go IN PERSON to a office to get it fixed. ridiculous.

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wait they have physical offices you can go to??? where??

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there's one in downtown manhattan and i think brooklyn too. but you need an appointment and those are like harder to get than concert tickets lol

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