Do You Lose Your Unemployment Benefits if You Get Arrested?
Question by The Grand Chawhee: Do you lose your unemployment benefits if you get arrested?
I live in CA. I have been collecting unemployment benefits for a while now. The other day I was arrested for “possession of drug paraphernalia”. I realize I will lose my benefits if/when I go to jail, but do you automatically lose them upon arrest or will the UI office even know about my arrest? Does anybody know anything about arrests and unemployment? Any info on this would be helpful.
Best answer:
Answer by Ryan M
You should. Nice to know that you are using taxpayer money to NOT ONLY support your drug habit, but that you were buying drugs and getting high instead of looking for a job. It is losers like you that SCREAM for a reform in public assistance programs.
Answer by Pwincess
Well I’m sure UI can find out that sort of information because they do background check. The information may be on record and I’m unsure if the IRS would see it on record and report it to the UI office. There’s a chance for that to happen.
I guess you can only wait and see. Just hope they don’t make you pay them back after they find out.
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No, You must be convicted of said crime FIRST, then you loose benefits!
If you are not available to work or look for work, for any answer, including being under arrest and held for a few days while waiting for bail money, then you must tell the UI office that you were not available to work or look for work, and you will lose benefits for that time only.
If you tell the UI office that you were available when you were actually in custody, then you can lose benefits for a long time.
If the police released you shortly after your arrest, so your ability to work or look for work was not affected, then you do not have to tell the UI office and you do not lose benefits.