You may want to prepare a simple timeline document for your hearing: 1. Date you were separated from employment 2. Date you filed for benefits 3. Date benefits were approved 4. Dates you received payments 5. Date the county case was closed (with reference to your letter) 6. Date employer filed their appeal This will clearly show the referee the significant delay in the employer's appeal, which strengthens your case considerably. In my experience, referees appreciate organized presentations of facts.

my cousin works for the unemployment office and she says your almost definitely gonna win this. employers pull this crap all the time at the end of claims to scare people. they know theyre gonna lose but they hope u miss the hearing or something so they win by default. DONT MISS THE HEARING WHATEVER U DO!!!

To clarify for everyone in this thread: PA UC's current processing works like this: 1. Claims filed Sunday through Tuesday are typically processed for Thursday payment 2. Claims filed Wednesday through Saturday are typically processed for Monday payment This is assuming there are no issues with your claim that require additional review. The system doesn't work faster for emergencies unfortunately. If you're in a tough spot with rent, you might want to look into PA's Emergency Rental Assistance Program or contact your county assistance office.

my roomate says sometimes he gets the money at like midnight sunday not monday morning so maybe check sunday night too

What about state taxes? Does PA take those out automatically too or just federal?

Thanks everyone for all the advice! I'm going to check the box for federal tax withholding. Better to get slightly smaller payments than a big tax bill later. I'll also put a little aside for the PA state taxes since they don't withhold that automatically. Really appreciate all the help!

Great news! Glad it worked out. In my experience, once that first payment goes through to the new bank, future payments should arrive on your normal day (Tuesday).

FINALLY!!! At least you got it! But watch it carefully with F&M... my brother's payments are ALWAYS late with them!!!

the whole UC system is broken anyway. my claim has been on hold for 2 months with no explanation. good luck getting a straight answer from them lol

One more important point: if your unpaid training takes more than 4 weeks, you may need to apply for Training Benefits (TRA) instead of regular UC. TRA is specifically designed for longer training programs that prepare you for a job. However, since yours sounds like it's just a few weeks, regular UC should cover you as long as you're properly reporting everything.

I'm actually going through the EXACT same situation right now!!! I've been on partial for 3 months and just got offered full time starting next Monday! I'm so confused about all this too because the handbook doesn't clearly say what to do. I'm going to do what others here suggested and file one last time showing my 40 hours. Did anyone's account status change in the system after they did this? Does it say "claim closed" or something?

Just to give you some additional information: When you report your full-time earnings on that final certification, if your gross wages exceed 130% of your weekly benefit amount, you'll receive $0 for that week. The system will show this as "excessive earnings" which is perfectly normal and expected. After that, you simply stop filing. Your claim will remain technically open until your benefit year ends, but you'll no longer receive payments or need to certify. This approach provides a clean record showing your transition from partial benefits to full employment, which protects you from potential issues later.

Has anyone else noticed they change the ORDER of the questions sometimes?? I swear last month the work search question came BEFORE the able and available question and now it's switched!!! No wonder people make mistakes!!!!

UPDATE: I managed to get through to someone at UC using that Claimyr service. The agent was able to see that I did answer NO to the work search question even though I did my activities. They put a note on my account and said my payment should process normally now. Such a relief! Thanks everyone for the help.

I forgot to mention they also wanted me to have my ID with me for the RESEA meeting so dont forget to bring that lol

To answer your last question - also bring your UC claim information (your claim confirmation or recent benefit payment info), contact information for your most recent employer, and your Social Security number. If your RESEA is virtual, have all these documents scanned and ready to share. If it's in-person, bring physical copies of everything.

my husband won his appeal in febuary and they never fixed it!!! he had to file ANOTHER appeal just to get them to actually implement the first appeal decision. its ridiculous how they operate. make sure you document everything

One thing that might help - check your portal to see if your appeal is listed in the "Determinations & Issue Status" section. If it shows the appeal as decided in your favor there, but your weekly claims still show as disqualified, that's normal during processing. If the appeal decision isn't showing up in that section at all yet, that might indicate the referee's decision hasn't been entered into the system.

my PA UC hearing was a DISASTER!!! the referee kept cutting me off whenever i tried to explain anything and my ex boss straight up LIED about stuff and they believed him!!! they denied my benefits even tho i had PROOF i was following company policy. this whole system is designed to side with employers no matter what!!!! 😡😡😡

Update: Just got off the phone with UC (finally got through using that Claimyr service someone mentioned - it actually worked!). They advised me to prepare a written statement to read if I get nervous and said my documentation of no prior warnings will be important. The agent also mentioned my employer has responded to the hearing notice, so they will likely attend. Getting more nervous but also feeling more prepared. Thanks for all the advice everyone!