Quad-State Pay Question

December 9, 2015 9:28 AM

My employer is a Delaware LLC, but headquartered (until one month ago) in Connecticut (from where my paychecks were addressed), but now headquartered in Florida (but my paychecks now come from a New Jersey address). I live in Washington State. Say I were to be let go - where would I claim unemployment?
posted by anonymous to Work & Money (5 answers total)

You are a resident of Washington, so you would claim it from Washington.
posted by soelo at 9:30 AM on December 9, 2015 [3 favorites]

File where you live and let them tell you if it's wrong. It probably isn't, because when they send you checks they are supposed to send unemployment insurance premiums to your jurisdiction.
posted by SMPA at 9:31 AM on December 9, 2015 [1 favorite]

You'll claim it in Washington, and if the company was paying into Washington's unemployment insurance program, you'll be fine. If they weren't, Washington will go after them. Either way, Washington will pay you.
posted by Etrigan at 9:33 AM on December 9, 2015 [3 favorites]

I am an employer of remote employees. I am not your employer, etc.

Whenever we hire an employee, we have to do whatever paperwork is necessary to file/pay unemployment insurance with the state they live in. We hire remote employees so I'm up to 4 states that we're dealing with this in.

So yeah, where your employer is domiciled in doesn't affect where you would go were you to be unemployed. You would go to your local unemployment office.
posted by randomkeystrike at 9:41 AM on December 9, 2015 [1 favorite]

I live in New York and worked for an office located in New York for an organization located in Pennsylvania. When I lost my job, I was told by NY to file in PA which I did. I collected unemployment from PA. Agreeing with above, to file in your home state and let them direct you.
posted by Pineapplicious at 9:45 AM on December 9, 2015