If the company you work for is in one state, and you live and work remotely from another state, do you claim unemployment benefits from the state in which the company is located or from the state of your residence?
This is a weird question for this site. However, I would assume that whichever state you pay income tax to would be the one that would be willing to grant you unemployment benefits.
@Leafyseadragon it is very possible that this employee is paying taxes to two states…one as a resident, and one as a non-resident.
This is a little different…but might apply. My DH worked for a company in our home state. The company, however, was based in another state. When this satellite office closed, the employees laid off applied for benefits in this state, not where the company was based.
dont companies pay into a fund for unemployment? If so…where was the OP’s company paying?
But also, how,would one go about applying for benefits in a state in which they don’t reside…that might be hundreds…or thousands of miles from where they actually work and reside?
Apply to your home state. Companies file forms when they have employees in different states. I just had to set up a new state for a remote workers and I pay into that states unemployment.
File where you live. If the state determines that you have more ‘credits’ for work in another state (or from another job) they will file a claim with that state and you will be paid under that state’s rates. You would still file your claims and proof of compliance (job search, school attendance) with your home state.
@Leafyseadragon If you think this is an odd question for Parent Cafe, then you haven’t spent much time at Parent Cafe…because we revel in odd questions here… 
Yes, I always use my staple COLONOSCOPY thread as an example of what is fair game to be discussed here! 
I worked a remote assignment and I filed one time in the state of the employer not my home state.
Depends on the state - here in the tri-state area - even though you may live in NJ if you work in NY you must claim unemployment in NY.
Just FYI…this thread started off in the Parents Forum…where it was sort of out of place (as it had nothing to do with college). It was moved to the cafe.
Sorry about posting to the wrong place – consensus seems to be that you file where you actually do the work… so if you live in NJ and commute into NYC, you would file in New York State.
If you work remotely from your home in NJ for a company that is in NYC, you would file in NJ.
However, the laid off person in question thought the HR person said to file in the state where the company is located, rather than the state where the work was done.
I think there may be some confusion so of course the most obvious thing is to follow up with the HR person.
But the day after being laid off is a stressful day, although not as stressful as the day before…
Thanks for the posts.
Please do not use “staple” and “colonoscopy” in the same sentence . . . ouch! %-(
I worked remotely from Illinois. Regional office (where I was assigned) was in Pennsylvania. Home office was in Minnesota. When my job was eliminated, I filed for and received unemployment in Illinois.
Turns out that this laid off person has confirmed that she should file for unemployment in the state from which she worked every day.
I have never been in the Parent Cafe, just the Parent Forum. But if you guys discuss colonoscopies I’M IN